[tz] Belarus is listed in MSK timezone

Matt Johnson mj1856 at hotmail.com
Fri Apr 3 19:34:01 UTC 2015


Yes , but when you say "identifier", I think "Europe/Minsk", not "MSK".  Do you consider both to be identifying a rule set?
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From: Lester Caine<mailto:lester at lsces.co.uk>
Sent: ‎4/‎3/‎2015 1:15 AM
To: tz at iana.org<mailto:tz at iana.org>
Subject: Re: [tz] Belarus is listed in MSK timezone

On 03/04/15 08:22, Matt Johnson wrote:
> How can we even hope to achieve time zone abbreviations that follow what
> people use on the ground if some places don't use abbreviations at all?

While on one hand the bulk of the current rules are well established,
some edge cases simply need a unique identifier for the internal rule
set being referred to. I'll repeat what I keep saying ... the local
'conversion' of the descriptions is not something that the TZ database
has any control over, and in some cases the internal identifiers are
simply that ... internal ... only requiring that they uniquely identify
a particular rule set.

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