On Fri, 12 Feb 2016, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 02/12/2016 11:29 AM, Alexander Krivenyshev wrote:
http://asozd2.duma.gov.ru/work/dz.nsf/ByID/DE3C735A7CF5622743257F56004250F4/ $File/91250509-91280822.pdf Thanks for the heads-up. It looks like we'll need a new zone Europe/Astrakhan, split off from the existing Europe/Volgograd. Will the new zone will switch from UTC+3 on 2016-03-27 at 02:00, to UTC+4? This detail is not in the above URL.
In the tz database, rather than give the new zone an invented abbreviation like "ASTT" that does not correspond to existing practice, I'd like to get out of the name-inventing business and just use "+04".
My main concern with stopping to use only upper case ASCII letters is that is going to break many implementations. Is it really worth the risk of deviating from this unwritten rule? Data stability is important, please do not take the decision of moving away from the defacto standard of upper case ASCII letters lightly. lightly. cheers, Derick -- PHP's Date/Time maintainer