Sept. 18, 2015
6:48 a.m.
Greg Slayden wrote:
I noticed in the 2015f tz database that the new Asia/Pyongyang zone for North Korea (now UTC+8:30) has the same abbreviation as Asia/Seoul. Both are noted as KST.
Yes, the matter was discussed, and as the database already used KST for UTC+08:30 in Korea we decided to just keep doing that. Abbreviations need not be unambiguous.