Paul Eggert said:
I don't know if Ireland uses the term GMT and BST, or something else. Probably the latter. Our information is that the Republic of Ireland uses "GMT" and "IST" (short for "Irish Summer Time"). An anonymous tz contributor verified this with the Secretary of the Irish Department of Justice.
Fine. Of course, that is ambiguous with Israeli Standard Time.
This sort of thing may all sound fairly baroque, but if it happened in the past it's possible it'll happen in the future, and a comprehensive time zone translation scheme should be able to support it.
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