On 23/04/15 19:34, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk wrote:
I understand that not being a member of TZ community I might not know certain things about TZ database practices, but am I really the only one finding this whole situation strange?
If one was to start again, then the software would probably not be designed around abbreviations, but it is probably that most early users were more interested in daylight saving changes and ignored the static tz offsets at all. If anything needs 'fixing' it's the need for an abbreviation at all when a location only has a fixed time offset. It IS only you who is trying to read more into the situation than actually exists ... in the absence of a documented answer we just use something to fill the hole, and MSK was correct at a point in history. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk