On Tue 2014-06-24T14:02:10 -0700, Paul Eggert hath writ:
So I'll look into proposing a patch to the tz code to have it support this behavior. There are probably a few other places in the code that should also prefer "UT" or "UTC" to "GMT".
That's a good convention for tz to adopt. At the moment there are probably more bureaucrats stressing over aspects of this than ever in history. No answer can conform to the legal systems of the world because the answer depends on who you ask, which country you live in, which language you speak in that country. It gets very confusing and is definitely tl;dr, but see preprint 11-662 at http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/2011/preprints/index.html and preprint 13-505 at http://www.cacr.caltech.edu/futureofutc/preprints/index.html for some investigations into how confused the answer gets. -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m