I REALLY like the four-letter proposed designations.  However, I suggest changing USXX to NAXX, since one set of abbreviations is shared by every North American country except Cuba.  Also, I’d like to suggest simply appending a “+” to indicate daylight saving time/ summer time (e.g., NAET+).

Hank W.

Austin, Texas, U.S.A.

From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Benny
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 07:04
To: Tobias Conradi; tz@iana.org
Subject: Re: [tz] Fw: Asia/Jakarta timezone acronym is misleading [RECAP]

Nope, I didn't know about that. They would be good substitute acronyms to use. Thanks for the information. I'll add some information about this WIB/WIT confusion to the tango.info/wiki later today.

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Regards,
benny

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From: Tobias Conradi <mail.2012@tobiasconradi.com>
To: Benny <bknliem@yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2013 1:49 PM
Subject: Re: [tz] Fw: Asia/Jakarta timezone acronym is misleading [RECAP]

> As for the English names, I propose they're changed into Western Time of
> Indonesia (WTI), Central Time of Indonesia (CTI), Eastern Time of Indonesia
> (CTI).
Did you consider
https://tango.info/wiki/Internationalized_time_point_unique_time_zone_abbreviations
?

Which could be:
IDWT
IDCT
IDET
?

For comparison Australia:
AUET
AUCT
AUWT

United States:

USET
USCT
USPT

Europe:
EUCT
EUET
EUWT

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