[tz] BBC: Clock changes: EU backs ending daylight saving
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Fri Aug 31 16:56:48 UTC 2018
If Europe descends into time zone chaos (let's hope not), likely victims will
include time zone names and abbreviations, since the meaning of "Central
European Time" might be +01 or +02 or even +03 depending on one's nationality or
politics. If there are signs of anything like this happening, tzdb can and
probably should switch to numeric offsets in Europe, to help lessen confusion.
(We can keep "GMT", though, as it's not confusing.)
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