Oct. 2, 1996
4:38 p.m.
Time zone names (abbreviations) are not unique, will never be unique, and hoping for such a thing, or doing anything at all assuming such a thing, is pointless, silly, and dangerous.
The zone names should only ever be used as a warm & friendly for output to humans, so they have some idea whether it the time is
Ok, your point of view have enough reasons to exists, I not attempt to agrue with you here. But even from your point of view preserving old MSK/MSD is nice idea because of "warm & friendly for output to [Russian] humans" at least. -- Andrey A. Chernov <ache@nagual.ru> http://www.nagual.ru/~ache/