[tz] Asia/Tomsk

[Victor Sudakov]

Dear Colleagues,

As a citizen of Tomsk, I would like to raise some questions concerning
the recent addition of the Asia/Tomsk timezone. As you know, this time
zone's abbreviation is all numeric:

Zone    Asia/Tomsk       5:39:51 -      LMT     1919 Dec 22
                         6:00   -       +06     1930 Jun 21
                         7:00   Russia  +07/+08 1991 Mar 31  2:00s
                         6:00   Russia  +06/+07 1992 Jan 19  2:00s
                         7:00   Russia  +07/+08 2002 May  1  3:00
                         6:00   Russia  +06/+07 2011 Mar 27  2:00s
                         7:00   -       +07     2014 Oct 26  2:00s
                         6:00   -       +06     2016 May 29  2:00s
                         7:00   -       +07

In my opinion, it is bad for two reasons:

1. zic warns that 'warning: time zone abbreviation differs from POSIX standard (+06)'

2. Such an abbreviation is not user friendly and even borders on
offensive. A locality deserves a name!

Could we do something about Asia/Tomsk and other zones with share the
same fate: Europe/Astrakhan, Europe/Kirov, Europe/Ulyanovsk,
Asia/Barnaul?

Thank you for your attention.


-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
sip:sudakov at sibptus.tomsk.ru