March 24, 2016
4:09 p.m.
On Mar 23, 2016, at 8:40 PM, Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> wrote:
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.
Please, no. It's bad enough that POSIX got it wrong originally, but to create a new set of zone names that just look like the old but with the sign convention in the opposite direction is only going to make the confusion worse. paul