[tz] Bangladesh's TZ Abbreviation

Christos Zoulas christos at zoulas.com
Fri Jan 18 20:50:29 UTC 2013


On Jan 18, 12:27pm, eggert at cs.ucla.edu (Paul Eggert) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: [tz] Bangladesh's TZ Abbreviation

| On 01/18/13 09:54, Shawn Steele wrote:
| > What has been the past policy for determining these abbreviations?
| > Particularly for non-Latin scripts
| 
| The tz database uses English and ASCII, so (for example) even if
| the most common name for the time in mainland China is "北京时间",

Windows appears to be able to handle non ascii timezone names(*), does
anyone know if their database has any localized timezone names?

christos

(*)http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms725481%28VS.85%29.aspx


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