From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 06:23:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] strbuf: let strbuf_addftime handle %z and %Z itself
Message-ID: <CA+55aFz5TC5XWWEZkf=e3rJZFwvQJoFyvWSaNSTiQZM3-yiOKQ@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170612211022.k7t2ywngrdcrkehn@sigill.intra.peff.net>

On Mon, Jun 12, 2017 at 2:10 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
>
> I suspect nobody has complained because we generally encourage real
> "-0800" names when specifying zones.

That's what any sane person uses, and it's what SMTP requiries.

The timezone names are a (bad) joke. If a human can't understand them
(and people don't), there's no point in thinking that a computer
should either.

So yes, timezones should strive very much to be numeric. The names are
an incomprehensible mess. Don't rely on them, and try to avoid using
them.

                  Linus