Mark Davis said:
Unless you want to be targeted by many Northern Irish, I wouldn't do that. There is no generic name for the time used in the UK. If we supply nothing, then it will fall back to the last field of the TZID ("London"). Showing a blank menu item is not really an option ;-)
<shrug> There is no generic name for the time used in the UK.
Are you also going to declare that New York can't use EST? No. I don't see how what I said would give you that impression.
If I can't use the name I normally use for my local time, why should you be entitled to? After all, lots of places use the term "EST". Ask the Estonians.
I don't see any reason for not doing it for all of English ("Summer ... How about the fact that many English-speaking people [*] use the term "Daylight Savings Time"?
[*] Accepting American as a dialect of English for this purpose.
What I was referring to was specifically the name for Europe/London. Nothing that I wrote was about the English names for the US timezones.
You wrote "all of English". I may consider Americans to be wrong about this, but they refer to "Daylight Savings Time" when asking me what happens in the UK. However, if you wish to pick a single term for this purpose, then "Summer Time" is best. My personal preference, though, would be for you to stop trying to hammer round pegs into this trapezoidal hole. -- Clive D.W. Feather | Work: <clive@demon.net> | Tel: +44 20 8495 6138 Internet Expert | Home: <clive@davros.org> | Fax: +44 870 051 9937 Demon Internet | WWW: http://www.davros.org | Mobile: +44 7973 377646 Thus plc | |