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FWIW, The Singapore National Metrology Centre refers to Singapore Standard Time as SST (not SGT).</div>
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<a href="https://www.a-star.edu.sg/nmc/Science-and-Technology/Time-Frequency.aspx" id="403351">https://www.a-star.edu.sg/nmc/Science-and-Technology/Time-Frequency.aspx</a><br>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> tz <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Lu, Can via tz <tz@iana.org><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, February 20, 2018 9:05 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Guy Harris; Paul Eggert<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Time Zone Mailing List<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [tz] SGT abbreviation is missing from the IANA tz database</font>
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<div class="PlainText">Thanks Guy/Paul, the 2nd source is also from wikipeida: <a href="https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FSingapore_Standard_Time&data=02%7C01%7C%7C37d8cd38fcfb410835fe08d5794cd1e8%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636548293219704466&sdata=Skwj3PV%2BEZ%2Bxy7YDaoDUGvPBNkREmXaviXC4%2F6BM9bM%3D&reserved=0">
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In real world, as I've been living in Singapore for many years, people do use SGT refer to the local time. Please consider add it back to tzdb if possible.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Can<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Guy Harris [<a href="mailto:guy@alum.mit.edu">mailto:guy@alum.mit.edu</a>] <br>
Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2018 12:25 PM<br>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu><br>
Cc: Lu, Can <can.lu@baml.com>; Time Zone Mailing List <tz@iana.org><br>
Subject: Re: [tz] SGT abbreviation is missing from the IANA tz database<br>
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On Feb 20, 2018, at 2:40 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:<br>
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> On 02/19/2018 06:55 PM, Lu, Can via tz wrote:<br>
>> SGT is very commonly used in Singapore and it’s also a standard abbreviation for Singapore time. Please refer to:
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> Those two sources<br>
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One source, actually - both point at the same Wikipedia page...<br>
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> are not reliable for real-world use, as they're derived from old versions of the tz database itself.<br>
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...which has<br>
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This article includes a list of references, but its sources remain unclear because it has insufficient inline citations.<br>
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at the top. It has 7 references (plus a non-reference footnote), one of which (for Ireland) is to a law, and the rest of which point to Web sites that may or may not be authoritative - e.g., they may just be using the tzdb as their source. Most of the time
zone abbreviations have *no* reference, so, again, they may have gotten the abbreviations from the tzdb, in Yet Another case of a process similar to citeogenesis:<br>
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