In message <200007171842.OAA07857@astro.cs.utk.edu>, Keith Moore writes:
>What a crock.  US/Eastern was far more correct.  People in the US call timezones
>by their names far more often than "New York time".  They might not even know
>what timezone a particular city is in.
>
>There's occasionally talk of Chicago migrating to the Eastern time zone.
>
>Where did this brain damage come from?

cf. /usr/src/lib/libc/time/Theory, which is part of the tzcode
package from elsie.nci.nih.gov.

| Older versions of this package used a different naming scheme,
| and these older names are still supported.
| See the file `backwards' for most of these older names
| (e.g. `US/Eastern' instead of `America/New_York').
| The other old-fashioned names still supported are
| `WET', `CET', `MET', `EET' (see the file `europe'),
| and `Factory' (see the file `factory').

--jhawk