perhaps some cities are not listed? what is one supposed to do then? find a city with equivalent geography and tz policy?
On 2/1/23, Heinz Tuechler <tuech...@gmx.at> wrote: > to...@tuxteam.de wrote/hat geschrieben on/am 01.02.2023 14:51: >> On Wed, Feb 01, 2023 at 01:26:36PM +0000, Ihor Radchenko wrote: >>> [ adding Org ML back to CC ] >>> >>> Christian Moe <m...@christianmoe.com> writes: >>> >>>>> Note, however, that because we are conforming to POSIX TZ, @UTC+2 is >>>>> two >>>>> hours _behind_ the Greenwich. >>>> >>>> Ouch. >>> >>> This is probably something we need to discuss further. >>> >>> Dear All, >>> >>> There is potential confusion coming from the different interpretations >>> of the time zone offsets used in ISO8601 and POSIX TZ specs: >> >> This is unfortunate indeed. I'd tend to pick one and not to allow >> both, out of fear of counfusion. And if I had to pick one, I'd pick >> ISO, which I've seen more often in the wild. But this might quite >> well be some sort of bias. >> >> Cheers >> > Same for me, I usually see ISO offset. Further, I am used to exchange > time designations (CET, EST, PDT,...) instead of [continent/city] > timezone names. My impression is that many of non experts like me don't > know in which time zone they are living. Is it trivial to find the > [continent/city] timezone name to a specific place? > best, Heinz > > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
