Re: [tz] Astrakhan region got approval to change its time zone

Arthur David Olson wrote:

"LST" (Local Standard Time) (in some cases, in conjunction with "LDT") could used for all those (new) cases where an abbreviation isn't known.

This would be less useful for traditional time stamps. For example, the output of successive invocations of POSIX 'date' in the C locale in Astrakhan might look like this: Tue Jul 1 12:31:27 LST 2014 Mon Feb 15 03:18:46 LST 2016 Sat Jul 1 23:51:21 LST 2017 and information about the UT offset would be lost. In contrast, using +NN would case 'date' output to look like this: Tue Jul 1 12:31:27 +04 2014 Mon Feb 15 03:18:46 +03 2016 Sat Jul 1 23:51:21 +04 2017 and the UT offset info would be available.