vanadovv@hetnet.nl wrote:
As a member of the public, I don't like the idea of the tz project calling my time zone <+07> :-)
As a member of the tzdb project (albeit one whose main effort was ages ago), I don't like the idea of expecting people not necessarily from the locale of a tzdb zone to pick abbreviations for times in the zone and then deal with complaints from people from that locale. :-)
My reply:
Look at the law: the official time zone name for Tomsk is: 6-я часовая зона (If utf-8 is working, then you'll see Russian in Cyrillic letters.) The English translation is: 6th hourly zone (6th timezone).
This same law "107-ФЗ Об исчислении времени" also provides an official alias "МСК+4" for this timezone. But we cannot use non-ascii characters for time zone names in tzdata, can we? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru