May 12, 2009
8:22 p.m.
"A case could be made for translating the native time zone names (Waktu Indonesia Barat, Waktu Indonesia Tengah, and Waktu Indonesia Timur) into English and using abbreviations based on the translated names." That is exactly what the current abbreviations are. Perhaps abbreviating Indonesia to two letters instead of one is the answer (that would yield WIDT, CIDT, and EIDT using the ISO code). This has its own difficulty, however, in that the D could be misread as standing for "daylight." Maybe tweak the word order and use IWT, ICT, and IET?