[tz] Add ISO Phonetic and Letter Time Zone Links to etcetera
Matt Johnson-Pint
mj1856 at hotmail.com
Mon Sep 9 19:46:25 UTC 2019
> If we were to make changes in this area, I think I might prefer going
> the other way and removing Etc entirely, as everything in Etc is either
> confusing or redundant.
Please don't remove the fixed-hour time zones like Etc/GMT+2. We need them for timekeeping on ships at sea.
They're also referenced in the Unicode CLDR Windows Zone mapping file.
https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/master/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml
Also Etc/UTC is much needed for the cloud, and servers in general.
Thanks,
Matt
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