On 7/20/2026 8:15 AM, Brooks Harris wrote:
The main point of FORMAT, as I understand it, was to keep POSIX abbreviations happy. But that convention originated decades ago when POSIX time (UNIX time), and TzDb (Olson) was primarily directed to support USA time zones. This has led to TzDb inventing all sorts of versions of FORMAT to follow this tradition. This has worked OK for years. But POSIX seems happy enough with FORMAT such as "-04". I think that approach makes more sense going forward. I expect to hear other opinions. Of course we can't change those that exist.
Does POSTIX correctly handle "EST4" "CST5" "MST6" "PST7"?
