On 25/08/16 05:42, Paul Eggert wrote:
I think UTC-1 is both more common, and less ambiguous than -01
You make a good point that "UTC-1" is less ambiguous in general English text. Unfortunately in tzdata commentary "UTC-1" is often not technically correct, as UTC is not defined for older time stamps.
With this in mind, how about if we change that commentary to use "UT -01" instead, as in the attached proposed patch. This should be clear enough within the tzdata context. The space after the "UT" encourages shorthands like "switch from UT -09 to -08" without having to repeat the "UT" all the time.
I think this does read better - "within the tzdata context" - which simply needs a novice reader to be aware when one can mentally think UTC or even GMT in a different context. Displaying local times where one has sufficient information to show the correct TIMEZONE is somewhat different to trying to guess that from a simple offset on a single date string. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk