[tz] Astrakhan region got approval to change its time zone

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Sun Feb 14 07:39:15 UTC 2016


On Sun, Feb 14, 2016, at 00:05, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Matt Johnson wrote:
> > I'm more concerned with end-user confusion on whether +04 means GMT+04 or MSK+04.
> 
> No abbreviation will be confusion-free; all we have are imperfect
> alternatives. 

Is there a strong reason to use +04 instead of UTC+04, other than a
superficial resemblance to ISO 8601 offsets?

How about "D"?


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