<html><head></head><body>Well, I'm just thinking that if you output a timestamp that looks like:<br>
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2015-09-03 14:33:04 MCK+4<br>
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Then later try to parse it back, your software might interpret MCK+4 as a POSIX string (I know that python-dateutil would), since it's formatted like one.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On May 26, 2016 10:56:02 AM EDT, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail">On Thu, May 26, 2016, at 10:33, Paul G wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> Wouldn't MCK+4 be interpreted by a POSIX TZ variable as 4 hours behind<br /> UTC?<br /></blockquote><br />Why is someone going to paste the abbreviation into the TZ variable?<br />There are very few timezones for which that would yield a useful result.<br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>