[tz] Asia/Jakarta timezone acronym is misleading

Benny bknliem at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 13 14:17:58 UTC 2013


The acronym used in Asia/Jakarta timezone is WIT (Western Indonesian Time), where in Indonesian language, WIT means Waktu Indonesia Timur (Eastern Indonesian Time), so it's rather confusing, especially if the conversation (say in Indonesian Wikipedia) is done in Indonesian language, and the user add a signature with the timemark, it will assume WIT is the Indonesian abbreviation, which is of course not. 


Noted in: https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44758    
First noted in: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=791 (2005)

 
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Regards,
benny
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