On Sep 26, 2021, at 5:44 PM, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 9/22/21 11:32 AM, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
Olsen's original insight to use towns and cities to name time zones turns out to be extraordinarily useful.
As a historical note, the naming convention you're talking about is something I originated and contributed to tzdb in 1993.
Yes - for example, back in 1992, the "Europe" file had these zones: $ git show a544b29c474e03e527df186cd9c33049bce31670:europe | egrep '^Zone' Zone GB-Eire 0:00 GB-Eire %s 1968 Oct 27 1:00s Zone WET 0:00 W-Eur WET%s Zone Iceland 0:00 - WET Zone Portugal 0:00 W-Eur WET%s 1992 Sep 27 1:00s Zone MET 1:00 M-Eur MET%s Zone Poland 1:00 W-Eur MET%s Zone EET 2:00 E-Eur EET%s Zone Turkey 3:00 Turkey EET%s Zone W-SU 3:00 M-Eur ???? (Paul, I think, constructed the tz Git repository, in part, from the original SCCS history from when SCCS was being used by Arthur).