On Dec 15, 2014, at 9:46 AM, Ken Hornstein <kenh(_at_)pobox(_dot_)com> wrote:
So that makes me wonder if
we should still try to bother to generate a symbolic timezone name. It
looks like the only portable way to do this is to have an internal list
of timezone names. A large part of me says to not bother.
The IETF has been discouraging symbolic timezone names for many years. I would
say ditch them. For those who want a symbolic timezone (usually recipients)
it's so they can easily mentally convert to their local time. Those folks are
better served by a +nnnn offset that their local MUA can unambiguously convert
to local time for display. And for those of us who do care about the senders
local time, the +nnnn format makes it a lot easier for me to do the mental
conversion vs. deciphering some unknown-to-me local-to-them timezone
abbreviation.
--lyndon
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