Sept. 9, 2019
7:46 p.m.
If we were to make changes in this area, I think I might prefer going the other way and removing Etc entirely, as everything in Etc is either confusing or redundant.
Please don't remove the fixed-hour time zones like Etc/GMT+2. We need them for timekeeping on ships at sea. They're also referenced in the Unicode CLDR Windows Zone mapping file. https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/master/common/supplemental/windowsZ... Also Etc/UTC is much needed for the cloud, and servers in general. Thanks, Matt