April 2, 2013
10:56 p.m.
On Tue, 2 Apr 2013, Alan Mintz wrote:
I disagree. I think it's natural to want to abbreviate, especially with things that are repeated a lot.
But that has to be done in a localized way anyway. In the Netherlands, nobody uses CEST or CET, but rather MEZT and MET... but the tz database doesn't have those either. The localization and naming is done very well in CLDR. I have implemented the Date/Time support (utilizing this database) in PHP, and have given many presentations about the subject. I always hammer in two things: "just" a timestamp is useless, and: never rely or use an abbreviation for anything. cheers, Derick