June 13, 2004
9:41 p.m.
"Mark Davis" <mark.davis@jtcsv.com> writes:
(Also, we looked at using the Olson TZID abbreviations, but they don't appear to have wide currency -- people in the countries in question didn't seem to be familiar with them -- so we decided not to use them.)
Yes, as tz-link.htm says in many cases they are the invention of the tz maintainers. If you have a reliable source of English-language abbreviations for these other local times, please let us know.