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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>TZDB uses the abbreviations CST and CDT for Taiwan (Asia/Taipei), CDT last being observed in 1979.<div><br></div><div>According to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Taiwan" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Taiwan</a>:</div><div><i><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">...the government on Taiwan now favors the term </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">National Standard Time</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><span lang="zh-tw" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$BT"2HI8=`;~4V(B</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) as official use. Along with the governmental standard, popular alternatives include </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Taiwan Standard Time</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><span lang="zh-tw" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$BgJ_TI8=`;~4V(B</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">), </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Taipei Time</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><span lang="zh-tw" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$BgJKL;~4V(B</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">) and </span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Formosan Time</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (</span><span lang="zh-tw" style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">$BUoEg;~4V(B</span><span style="color: rgb(37, 37, 37); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 24.8889px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">)...</span></i></div><div><br></div><div>Should we update the current abbreviation to either NST or TST? CST doesn't seem right.<br>I'm asking on behalf of a user of moment-timezone (a JS library that imports TZDB) who requested this here: <a href="https://github.com/moment/moment-timezone/issues/282" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">https://github.com/moment/moment-timezone/issues/282</a></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Matt</div> </div></body>
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