Re: [tz] Belarus is listed in MSK timezone

On Sat, Apr 25, 2015, at 15:10, Guy Harris wrote:

with the latter being an escape hatch put in for the benefit of the Olson database and code, as it was called back then, so one *could* try arguing that POSIX would not impose any constraints on what we do with tzname[] with a tzdb zone setting, but, in practice, that argument will probably fall on deaf ears).

The only argument I have seen for not using e.g. "GMT+03" is that people might paste it into the TZ variable and end up with dates with an abbreviation of "GMT" and an offset of -03:00. Note, though, that almost no other abbreviation, except for a handful defined for North America and Europe and not including MSK, can be used directly as the value of TZ.