On 2017-11-06 22:43:33 (-0800), Paul Eggert wrote:
* NEWS, africa, asia, australasia, europe, localtime.c: * newctime.3, newtzset.3, northamerica, southamerica, theory.html: * tz-link.htm, tzselect.ksh, zdump.c, zic.8, zic.c: Be more consistent about using "UT" instead of "UTC" when talking about timestamps that might predate the introduction of UTC.
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to simply note "where we write UTC, we actually mean UT when referring to timestamps before UTC was introduced". While UTC is comparatively poorly understood, UT is simply unknown to anyone who hasn't been reading tzdata diffs or hanging out with time nerds for a while. Also worth considering, where 'output' is concerned, people expect "timezones" to be in the form of "UTC+-XXXXXX" and "UT" may be confusing. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information