On 01/04/2013 02:19 PM, Shawn Steele wrote:
Are there cases where people are using their own Timezone data? (I'm thinking like a company or research station or something that doesn't snap to some "normal" tz for some reason)
For a research station, as far as I know common practice is to set the TZ environment variable a la POSIX. So, for example, if the folks in the new Bharathi research station in Antarctica decided on their own time zone, they could set TZ='BHAT-5', say. That way, they don't need to futz with the time zone data. (This is hypothetical -- I expect that they actually just use Indian time, with TZ='Asia/Kolkata').
For non-standard timezones is there a recommendation for naming conventions?
There isn't, but if there's a need we should probably establish one. "Etc" is probably not a good prefix, since it's in use in the standard list. "Extension", maybe?