On 09/23/2011 09:45 PM, Tim Parenti wrote: ...
The notion of perpetually calling this "summer time" (as EEST) or "forward time" (as EEFT) is silly, since it's observed as the same standard year-round. If one were to ask a reasonably knowledgeable person on the street for their current time and time zone, I doubt ...
Isn't this going too far? Silly, indeed? One might call silly, or at least unbased, the assertion of "FET" being "the most reasonable and thought-out proposal thus far". Reasonable? Not because it replaces the *established* "EE.T" pattern to something completely different? Thought-out? Not because of the "F-" prefix being something which "might do for now"? Because somebody haven't seen nothing better" (better how)? Frankly, I thought the tzdata purpose is to provide short and reasonably informative denotations of the timezones, for the software which requires such entity. What person on the street might know about such denotations is, frankly, unimportant. What person using the TZ entities might know of this, is, on the other hand, of some importance. After all, why bother with abbreviated denotations at all? GMT+3 might nicely do for Europe/Minsk etc. But if there has to be such thing as the abbreviature, let it make sense to its users in the first place. -Yury