19.10.2016 14:41, Guy Harris пишет:
On Oct 18, 2016, at 10:41 PM, Pavel V. Rochnyack <rpv@nikolas.ru> wrote:


19.10.2016 12:20, Paul Eggert пишет:

Sadika Sumanapala wrote:

Sri Lanka standard time is SLST.

We can switch to "SLST" later if it catches on in the broader English-language community.

 ... and if your country is not English-speaking you have to go away with your wishes (like Russia and rest of exUSSR).

If your country is not English-speaking, your software vendor should be providing their own translations of time zone abbreviations

Sadika Sumanapala, did you get the answer?  If you want abbreviation to be changed, then your software vendor should provide their own time zone database.
Did you create support ticket already?

If your country is not English-speaking, your software vendor should be providing their own translations of time zone abbreviations

Whom do you mean by "your software vendor"? If I'm using Debian, then you propose Debian community to build localized tzdb versions for different countries?

Later, if some country will change its timezone offset then you also will answer "your software vendor should be providing their own ..." ?

Do you realize what your comment offer segregation?

 or using the Unicode CLDR for translated abbreviations.  

It's not the job of the tzdb maintainers to provide non-English-language abbreviations;

Then tzdb should not provide abbreviations at all. This world has not only English language but tzdb is used world-wide.

	

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