On 10/21/2012 02:39 PM, enh wrote:
at the risk of pouring more gas on a fire i don't even care about... fwiw, here's what Android has for the Australia/ zones, courtesy of CLDR via icu4c: I believe CLDR actually localizes the australian timezones to have the A internationally and not in en-AU. Of course, there is a legitimate argument that tzdata should have international abbreviations and leave localized ones to CLDR.
Actually... it's not clear to me why localization of abbreviations, metazones, and any idea of timezone _names_ at all (i.e. the string "Eastern Standard Time") is outside the scope of tzcode/tzdata. Other than the fact that these days it would be redundant with CLDR, though an implementation in tzcode to actually print the localized abbreviations and names would still be useful.