The situation with MSK abbreviation is different. "Minsk time" was never abbreviated as MSK or associated with this abbreviation in any way in the past. MSK stands for first three consonants of word Moscow transliterated from Russian (MoSKva) and has a long history behind it. And in my opinion trying to force this abbreviation onto "Minsk time" just because it sort of sticks (and already exists) isn't the right approach here. -- Dzmitry Kazimirchyk On 4/1/15 3:30 PM, John Haxby wrote:
On 01/04/15 09:25, Julian Cable wrote:
There are systems which unfortunately want to use abbreviations in pick lists. Ambiguous abbreviations are not ideal.
They're out of luck then. It didn't take much hunting to discover that BST (British Summer Time) is also used for Pacific/Bougainville.
$ TZ=Europe/London date Wed 1 Apr 13:29:25 BST 2015
$ TZ=Pacific/Bougainville date Wed 1 Apr 23:29:31 BST 2015
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