<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:37 PM, Zefram wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">No, it can't. In the British Isles, "GMT" unambiguously refers to UT+0h,<br>never to regional civil time. Likewise, "BST" unambigously refers to<br>UT+1h, never to regional civil time. </span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Thank you! I believe a change is in order. I did not know.</div><div>So Etc/GMT to Abbr/GMT and A link for BST to a different zone?. </div><br><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">Generally, I think your goal of being able to look up a geographical<br>timezone based on the abbreviations it uses is a sensible one,<br>but creating new names for the zones is not the way to go about it.<br></span></blockquote></div><br><div>I only know that functions are required to handle. And there has been a</div><div>good reason why no end user currently does use it. Do you know what its like to</div><div>scan every file to find one zone? much less create a look-up table just</div><div>so an end user could use the API that says it is suppose to work? This</div><div>file is my look up so POSIX functions can work, even if its the best guess for now.</div><div><br></div><div>This has been a great discussion. I hope you or the organization can use the</div><div>file, if not just for information, or maybe it will generate a final solution. Even</div><div>if it does mean some sort of name change, like a letter/number suffix?</div><div><br></div><div>Steve</div><div><br></div></body></html>