Paul Eggert wrote:
Victor Sudakov wrote:
But these abbreviations are already sanctified by a long tradition.
Not really. And I have some experience in this, as I am the one who *invented* that "long tradition", and I've seen it not catch on.
Sources like the ones below are not good enough? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krasnoyarsk_Time https://ru.flightaware.com/live/airport/UNKL https://savvytime.com/converter/btt-to-krat In fact, I have obtained them just from googling for "KRAT NOVT", there are thousands.
When are you planning to migrate the abbreviations like EST or HST?
EST and HST have been commonly used by reliable English-language sources for decades. We did not invent these abbreviations, and don't plan to remove them.
I also suggest you please don't remove the abbreviations which are already there and used by thousands of systems and sites. This is Bolshevism. I am not saying anymore that Tomsk or some new addition to the database should trigger the creation of a brand-new abbreviation. But you could at least keep the symbolic abbreviations for major time zones (we have 11 of them in Russia). -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru