June 3, 2016
7:16 a.m.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2016, at 01:49, Paul Eggert wrote:
I certainly don't think "The US and Europe get abbreviations and Russia does not" is reasonable.
Quite right, the guideline should not pick on Russia, and that's not the intent.
The intent matters less than the effect. But in this case, the *intent* seems quite clearly to be to favor English-speaking countries (or countries whose timezones are more frequently talked about *in* English, e.g. Western Europe) over non-English-speaking ones, otherwise we would eventually use the numeric names everywhere rather than stating there are no plans to remove [e.g.] EST.