I'm forwarding this message from Jason Grimes, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the list, please direct replies appropriately. Note that time zone abbreviations are consistently abbreviations of the English-language names of time zones. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Jason Grimes [mailto:jg@proz.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:23 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Cc: Jason Grimes Subject: Incorrect time zone abbreviations for Indonesia Dear time zone data maintainers, I'm a developer at ProZ.com, a website for human language translators. One of our users has reported that the time zone names for the time zones in Indonesia, specifically Asia/Jakarta, Asia/Pontianak, Asia/Makassar, and Asia/Jayapura, are incorrect in the current time zone data. According to her, and to the following references, it appears that these time zone abbreviations should be updated as follows: ID offset current new Asia/Jakarta UTC+7 WIT WIB (Waktu Indonesia Barat) Asia/Pontianak UTC+7 WIT WIB (Waktu Indonesia Barat) Asia/Makassar UTC+8 CIT WITA (Waktu Indonesia Tengah) Asia/Jayapura UTC+9 EIT WIT (Waktu Indonesia Timur) References: http://time.kim.lipi.go.id/ http://www.statoids.com/tid.html I noticed a similar bug report from 2005 but I was unable to find any resolution: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.glibc/12741/match=indo nesia I hope this gives enough information to update these time zone names. Thanks to all of you who help to maintain this valuable resource. Best regards, Jason Grimes