Time zone abbreviations

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 21:14 19.02.2001 +0100, Milan Zamazal wrote:
> >>>>> "JTC" == Jason T Cheng <jason@inetworx.com.ph> writes:
>
>     JTC> 2.  when i try to change the state of a PR, it returns the ff
>     JTC> error Error: parse the ARRIVAL_DATE date: Mon Feb 19 19:10:01
>     JTC> PHT 2001.
>
> I think this is because PHT isn't a valid time zone name (at least from
> the point of view of GNATS, I don't know whether time zone names are
> standardized anywhere).

No standard seems to exist. Many UNIX flavours understand a great range of 
abbreviations, but the most exhaustive list I managed to find was from the 
documentation for the Perl date manipulation module at 
http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~sbeck/DateManip.html#TIMEZONES

The missing ones from this list should probably be added to Gnats.

Yngve Svendsen
IS Engineer
Clustra AS, Trondheim, Norway
yngve.svendsen@clustra.com