Re: [tz] Why did you rename Russian zone name abbreviations

On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 2:46 PM, Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

CLDR has entries that map from what they call "metazones" to both long and short time zone names; the short time zone names are abbreviations.

Thanks for a crash course on CLDR! Does this mean that a date utility that uses CLDR will not be affected by the tzdb change from VLAT to +10? Is timezone data in en.xml derived mechanically from tzdb or maintained independently?