[tz] Idea for internationalized time point unique time zone abbreviations

[Boruch Baum]

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On 06/06/2012 11:51 AM, Ian Abbott wrote:
> I guess the main problem here is that the week-day names and month
> names (in the Gregorian/Julian calendar system) are known
> internally by glibc, whereas timezone names and abbreviations are
> external to glibc (and are also a bit of a moving target).
> 
Yup. Not trivial. However, GLIBC and coreutils are already picking up
timezone information and abbreviations (eg. date +%z_%Z) from the tzif
files, and they already pick up localizations from localedef files, so
it's not too far a jump to suggest extending it to an arbitrarily
sized list of unique zone-names (and with Tobias's suggestion, unique
zone-abbreviations).

BTW, a look at the wikipedia list of tz abbreviations shows a case to
confound some translators for unique zone descriptions, because I
suspect that some languages use non-unique words for Arab, Arabian,
Arabic:

AST 	Arab Standard Time (Kuwait, Riyadh) 	UTC+03
AST 	Arabian Standard Time (Abu Dhabi, Muscat) 	UTC+04
AST 	Arabic Standard Time (Baghdad) 	UTC+03
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