* A more consistent naming strategy for TZIDs. The current draft is inconsistent: for the same time zone it sometimes says "America-New_York", sometimes "America-New York", and sometimes other things like "Eastern". TZIDs are arbitrary, but a good naming convention can help reduce the number of errors, ease maintenance, and improve interoperability.
What I'd really like to see is a separate document defining globally-scoped timezone names. That way, TZIDs don't have to be arbitrary. I would think that such a document would want to use a subset of the names in the Olsen database. e.g. "/US/Eastern"
* A reference to the Olson database prior art. Many potential implementers don't know about this useful source, and have thereby propagated incorrect time zone data.
I agree that this would be useful.
* Allow UTC offsets that are not multiples of one minute. This is needed for historically recent applications (e.g. the time zone in Liberia up to 1972).
* The examples should be a tad more careful about distinguishing between US Eastern time and New York time, since there was a lot of confusion about the Eastern time zone before, say, 1976.
These also seem appropriate. Keith