[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] Change Turkey timezone abbreviation to TRT

Orhan Biyiklioglu biyiklioglu at gmail.com
Fri Sep 23 22:21:13 UTC 2016


New time zone abbreviation TRT has been proposed to denote the Turkey Time.

See: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/trt

Can we use it instead of the +03 abbreviation in the 2016g release?

---
 europe | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/europe b/europe
index 6020059..f05d5fa 100644
--- a/europe
+++ b/europe
@@ -3496,6 +3496,11 @@ Zone	Europe/Zurich	0:34:08 -	LMT	1853 Jul 16 # See above comment.
 # From Paul Eggert (2016-09-07):
 # The change is permanent, so this is the new standard time in Turkey.
 # It takes effect today, which is not much notice.
+#
+# From Orhan Biyiklioglu (2016-09-23):
+# New timezone abbreviation TRT is proposed for Turkey time
+# https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/trt
+
 
 # Rule	NAME	FROM	TO	TYPE	IN	ON	AT	SAVE	LETTER/S
 Rule	Turkey	1916	only	-	May	 1	0:00	1:00	S
@@ -3569,7 +3574,7 @@ Zone	Europe/Istanbul	1:55:52 -	LMT	1880
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2015 Oct 25  1:00u
 			2:00	1:00	EEST	2015 Nov  8  1:00u
 			2:00	EU	EE%sT	2016 Sep  7
-			3:00	-	+03
+			3:00	-	TRT
 Link	Europe/Istanbul	Asia/Istanbul	# Istanbul is in both continents.
 
 # Ukraine
-- 
1.8.3.1



More information about the tz mailing list