Ton Voon wrote: >timezones, but DateTime doesn't support the timezone CET. Is there a >reason for it?
The lettered abbreviations for timezones are generally ambiguous. Most famously, there's an "EST" in both America and Australia. I don't think there's any "CET" other than Central European Time, though. Generally these abbreviations are deprecated. CET is almost certainly not what you want, though. CET is a fixed offset of UT+1h. The civil time in west-central continental Europe is UT+1h during the winter and UT+2h (Central European Summer Time, CEST) during the summer. I'm not aware of any short name for this CET/CEST combination. CET is year-round civil time only in certain equatorial countries, such as Angola. > Is it better to specify a timezone based on a location, >such as Europe/Paris? Yes. These unambiguously refer to the civil time in a particular location. -zefram
