[tz] time zone abbreviations - French vs English

Tobias Conradi tobias.conradi at gmail.com
Tue Jun 5 00:23:52 UTC 2012


was: tz abbreviations / zdump for programmers

On Tue, Jun 5, 2012 at 1:43 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 06/04/2012 11:39 AM, Boruch Baum wrote:
>> Do the French in Quebec have the same
>>    TZ name and abbreviation as the Anglos there?
>
> Yes, absolutely.  This is a common situation
> in many parts of the world.
That was someone without giving evidence, it follows Tobias with
giving evidence.

No they don't universally:

HNE vs EST
https://www.google.com/search?q=19h00+%22HNE%22+site%3Aqc.ca

Two other pairs are:
HAEC vs CEST
HEC vs CET


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