Aug. 31, 2018
4:56 p.m.
If Europe descends into time zone chaos (let's hope not), likely victims will include time zone names and abbreviations, since the meaning of "Central European Time" might be +01 or +02 or even +03 depending on one's nationality or politics. If there are signs of anything like this happening, tzdb can and probably should switch to numeric offsets in Europe, to help lessen confusion. (We can keep "GMT", though, as it's not confusing.)