Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@rfhs8012.fh-regensburg.de> writes:

>  * (worse) any date-parser will probably explode by a multi-word timezone

Those programs are really very broken, since there is *nothing* that
says what a timezone name should look like, infact what is now usually
called `CEST', was formerly named `MET DST'.

> Klaus Klein has suggested to change the default time zone to UTC,
> which I think makes sense.

Yes.

/Johan