Information wanted #1: time zone names in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at davros.org
Tue Sep 27 11:35:59 UTC 2011
Robert Elz said:
> What we should really be doing is making it clear to one and all that
> these abbreviations are meaningless, rather than FET or EEFT or BYT or
> anything else, call all the Russian (and related) zones "EST" (they're
> Eastern, with respect to most of Europe anyway, and they have a standard
> time), for no better reason than to make it clear to everyone that the
> abbreviations have no practical purpose, and are better never used, anywhere.
Very true.
Perhaps we should use "NSA", for "No Standard Abbreviation", for these
cases.
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