Feb. 17, 2016
12:32 a.m.
<<On Tue, 16 Feb 2016 16:26:43 -0800, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> said:
What would be the consequence of just removing the column entirely? (ok, maybe too drastic, but just for discussion)
strftime %Z would stop working, and lots of old and/or questionable code would stop working.
And a few million people who live in areas where these abbreviations matter would get rightly pissed off, although it might take them a while to notice, because the vendors would probably fork tzdata at that point rather than deal with the hassle. -GAWollman