[tz] Bangladesh's TZ Abbreviation

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Jan 17 22:02:23 UTC 2013


Thanks for the heads-up.  A Google search of "Bangladesh Standard Time site:bd"
from UCLA yielded the following examples:

BST
http://www.parliament.gov.bd/cpa/Time%20Zone.htm
http://www.undp.org.bd/info/contact.html
http://www.bpdb.gov.bd/download/Meghnaghat%20PQ%20Amendment%20Notice%2018.03.2010.pdf
http://www.newstoday.com.bd/index.php?option=details&news_id=2333656&date=2013-01-07
http://www.lgd.gov.bd/Tenders/PQ_Document.pdf
http://www.powercell.gov.bd/index.php?page_id=250

BDST
http://mail.banglanews24.com.bd/English/detailsnews.php?nssl=64b69edbdbebddfb07106576108edc00&nttl=2013010160787

>From this admittedly limited sample, it would appear that the most common abbreviation
is "BST", with "BDST" being used by banglanews24 but being rare elsewhere.

Perhaps the TZ database should switch to "BST"?


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