Paul Eggert said:
Ethiopia time is out of our scope not so much because we can't represent current practice in many Addis Ababa businesses (we can), but because it's an independent feature that POSIX and/or tzdb is not set up to model. One can use so-called Ethiopian timekeeping in any timezone; should we set up an Ethiopian variant for every current tzdb identifier, for the benefit of Ethopians sojourning in other locations?
No, because that's not common practice in other countries. Everything I've read here says that a significant population in Ethiopia effectively runs their life on UTC-3 rather than the UTC+3 that people might expect. So I think it's reasonable to have that in the database. I see no difference between this and the decision to include Asia/Urumqi. -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646