On Thu, Dec 5, 2013, at 10:53 AM, Dave Rolsky wrote: > On Thu, 5 Dec 2013, Alfie John wrote: > Does any sane software actually use these ancient time zone names? > > The only useful thing to do is use a zone like America/Chicago so you get > DST transitions and such. If you want a DST-less zone that's simple to > understand, you should use UTC, not some fixed offset from UTC (which > will > very confusingsly match up with different local time zones as DST comes > and goes in various places).
I planned on using them as a fallback when the Olson equivalent could not be found. Alfie -- Alfie John alf...@fastmail.fm
