March 24, 2016
12:40 a.m.
The confusion comes because in typical English usage 'GMT-4' often means 4 hours behind GMT. My impression is that the Etc/* zones are best avoided in applications that use time zone abbreviations.
Makes sense. Though I believe Etc/GMT-4 and its cousins are in wider use than you might think. Do you think it might help if we also had zones like Etc/UTC+4 that had the sign in the common direction? Just a thought.