Oct. 14, 2011
8:11 a.m.
On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Robert Elz wrote:
Opting for caution when changing things is what this project has always done, and I see no reason to alter that policy, so I would not break anyone's code by altering the policy that the zone abbreviation (tzname[] or tm_zone) is a short alphabetic string (even an upper case short alphabetic string.)
Just to confirm your "suspicion". It would indeed break PHP's date parsing routines as things like "EDT"/"EST" and "-04:00" provides different types internally. Derick