[tz] LST

[Tim Parenti]

Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I believe most robust implementations of the TZ
database already have some way of expressing an offset in this way.  If
people want to use a meaningful offset identifier, e.g., "-04:00" (with or
without the colon) as a replacement for an abbreviation like "EDT" in their
individual cases, there is, practically speaking, very little they need to
do to accomplish that.

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Tim Parenti



On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 21:15, Random832 <random832 at fastmail.us> wrote:

> On 10/11/2011 12:45 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
>
>> Yes, that was deliberate - that is, part of the aim is to try and
>> reinforce
>> the understanding that these abbreviations offer no meaningful value
>> whatever...  (except perhaps in one of the very few jurisdictions where
>> they are actually defined, and even there, only if the application has
>> some other means to know that the particular jurisdiction is the one of
>> concern.)
>>
>> kre
>>
> Why not have a "no abbreviation" mode where the 'abbreviation' is just
> "-04:00", which _is_ meaningful?
>
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