[tz] LST

[Derick Rethans]

On Fri, 14 Oct 2011, Robert Elz wrote:

> Opting for caution when changing things is what this project has always
> done, and I see no reason to alter that policy, so I would not break
> anyone's code by altering the policy that the zone abbreviation
> (tzname[] or tm_zone) is a short alphabetic string (even an upper case
> short alphabetic string.)

Just to confirm your "suspicion". It would indeed break PHP's date 
parsing routines as things like "EDT"/"EST" and "-04:00" provides 
different types internally.

Derick