Location names not containing a /

Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Wed Sep 6 18:48:19 UTC 2006


"Srdjan Krajnalic" <ludiskr at yahoo.com> writes:

> Please, can you confirm that under the new convention the only names not
> containing a / in the zone NAME are auxiliary zones such as PST8PDT, WET,
> MST7MDT, MET, etc

The Theory file talks about this.  It says that names normally have
the form AREA/LOCATION.  Older names lack a "/", but the newer names
all have at least one "/", and they're all based on a specific
location.



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