[tz] Idea for internationalized time point unique time zone abbreviations

[Boruch Baum]

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On 06/07/2012 11:38 AM, Pierpaolo Bernardi wrote:
> I live in a country comprised entirely in one time zone (Italy),
> so the sensibility to the issue is lower than in a country spanning
> more zones. The only way I see other time zones mentioned in
> media/common people speech is the equivalent of "time of a well
> known big city" like, "london time", "new york time", "tokyo
> time".
How would you prefer to see (and be able to program) that information
in a computer interface?

For example, currently the coreutils command line utility 'date' gives
you only two format options for presenting a timezone:

1] %z - a numeric UTC offset hh:mm
2] %Z - a tz abbreviation, only available in latin characters,
        of only the Anglo (and non-IANA) timezone name (eg.
        CST for not-Australian but USA Central Standard Time).
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