FW: Belarus abolishes DST

Sat Sep 17 23:30:49 UTC 2011

On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 12:49 AM, Alexander Bokovoy <abokovoy at redhat.com> wrote:
> We may stuck with Belarus selecting EEST, Ukraine taking EET, Lithuania,
> Latvia, Estonia, and Finland continuing to observe DST and alternate
> between EET/EEST.
>
> At this stage I'm not sure using same naming would help to maintain
> clarity...
For comparison:

"We may stuck with Belarus selecting BYT, Ukraine taking UAT, Lithuania,
Latvia, Estonia, and Finland continuing to observe DST and alternate
between EET/EEST."

i.e. one would be confronted with four abbreviations instead of two and
would not know that they only represent two offsets from UTC.

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