On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Yury Tarasievich <yury.tarasievich@gmail.com> wrote:
Well, I still support my proposal for EEFT (East Europe Forward Time).
My argument is EEFT looks a lot like the previous denotation (EEST/EEDT) and is in fact based on it, and gets sensible precedence in lists, Agreed.
Also, the new element is stylistically neutral and doesn't introduce extraneous concepts. It introduces the concept of forward time.
E.g., the entity described isn't prevailingly "Eastern Eastern", like in EEET proposal (Kaliningrad, Belarus, Ukraine). Yes, maybe better to stay away from Eastern Eastern, since Moscow is even more Eastern.
Also, it seems fairly good English (compared to FET). And FET has only one E.
I'm just against introducing a "theory" for this. It was you who introduced: FT = forward time.
This is, by now, a once-only action, and as we can't read the future, why bother with anticipating? Because careful working can reduce the chance of having to deal with extra problems in the future.
Anyway, I just intended to write down what you proposed. No theory building beyond your theory.
Even so, "forward" means just "moved forward", "in advance"; but equvalising this to daylight saving, as in Tobias theory proposal, seems somewhat erroneous. If calling it permanent summer time in the side note is the issue, one could simply remove that from the FT line, it would then read:
"FT for forward time (only used for EEFT)." Here is version 3 of my proposal: -------- Some generic endings are: - T for time - MT for mean time (e.g. GMT), - ST for summer time (e.g. BST, CEST), - DST for double summer time (e.g. BDST, MDST) - FT for forward time (only used for EEFT). The strings are also used in zone abbreviations without having these meanings, e.g. AFT = Afghanistan Time, ALMT = Alma-Ata Time, IST = Indian Standard Time. Zones that use ST to mean standard time commonly use DT to mean daylight [saving] time, e.g. EST, EDT in North America. -------- -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/tobias_conradi