On Wed 2011-12-07T20:37:24 +0000, Zefram hath writ:
Generally, I think your goal of being able to look up a geographical timezone based on the abbreviations it uses is a sensible one, but creating new names for the zones is not the way to go about it. The lookup should be a separate process, and should have explicit handling for abbreviations used by more than one zone. The abbreviations just don't behave like a namespace for these zones, in addition to them actually naming something other than the geographical zone.
If I am not mistaken this is one of the issues under consideration by the Timezone Technical Committee as they work out registry issues and server protocols. http://calconnect.org/tc-timezone.shtml -- Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS) UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855 1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015 Santa Cruz, CA 95064 http://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m