<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 4:28 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10/31/2016 12:17 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:<br>
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Some of the abbreviations that may have been originally invented by you or Olson have since come into common practice. <br>
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Yes, web pages derived from older versions of the tz database use them. But they do not appear to be common in general English usage.</blockquote></div><br>I am not sure English language web pages reflect the expectations of the majority of users of Russian time zones. As I mentioned earlier, it is common to use English abbreviations in Russian technical documents. I wouldn't be surprised if similar practices exist in other non-English speaking countries, particularly in those with non-Latin scripts.</div></div>