Yes, Alan, you read me correctly. My suggestion is just to change Urumqi/Asia so that it remains on UTC +6:00 (instead of moving to +8:00 after May 1980). Even though a large part of the population in Urumqi use +8:00 (aka Beijing time) they still know (and officially recognize) Urumqi time (aka Wulumuqi time aka Xinjiang time) as +6:00. I suggested the abbreviation XJT since that is universally understood by all ethnicities and most commonly used, but the pre-1980 abbreviation, URUT is also fine. -mld Kashgar/Asia would of course follow suite. On Oct 2, 2010, at 4:13 PM, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Sat, 02 Oct 2010, Luther Ma wrote:
I am still hoping that you would consider these issues, and of course, am hoping to one day see XJ Time in tzdata (and not just in the comments)
I read your message as "I like the change in principle, but I don't like the names". Could you suggest names that you think are better?
--apb (Alan Barrett)