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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">19.10.2016 14:41, Guy Harris пишет:<br>
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<pre wrap="">On Oct 18, 2016, at 10:41 PM, Pavel V. Rochnyack <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:rpv@nikolas.ru"><rpv@nikolas.ru></a> wrote:
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<pre wrap="">19.10.2016 12:20, Paul Eggert пишет:
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<pre wrap="">Sadika Sumanapala wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Sri Lanka standard time is SLST.
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<pre wrap="">We can switch to "SLST" later if it catches on in the broader English-language community.
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<pre wrap=""> ... and if your country is not English-speaking you have to go away with your wishes (like Russia and rest of exUSSR).
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<pre wrap="">If your country is not English-speaking, your software vendor should be providing their own translations of time zone abbreviations
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Sadika Sumanapala, did you get the answer? If you want abbreviation
to be changed, then your software vendor should provide their own
time zone
database.<br>
Did you create support ticket already?<br>
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<pre wrap="">If your country is not English-speaking, your software vendor should be providing their own translations of time zone abbreviations</pre>
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<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span class="">Whom
do you</span> <span class="">mean by</span> </span>"your
software vendor"? If I'm using Debian, then you propose Debian
community to build localized tzdb versions for different countries?<br>
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Later, if some country will change its timezone offset then you also
will answer "your software vendor should be providing their own ..."
?<br>
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<span id="result_box" class="short_text" lang="en"><span>Do you
realize</span> <span>what your comment offer</span> <span
class=""></span></span><span id="result_box" class="short_text"
lang="en"><span class=""> segregation</span></span>?<br>
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<pre wrap=""> or using the Unicode CLDR for translated abbreviations.
It's not the job of the tzdb maintainers to provide non-English-language abbreviations; </pre>
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Then tzdb should not provide abbreviations at all. This world has
not only English language but tzdb is used world-wide.<br>
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Regards,
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