Internationalized time zone acronyms for Indonesia: Difference between revisions
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If heading for four letter acronyms then using
- IDWT - Indonesia Western Time
- IDCT - Indonesia Central Time
- IDET - Indonesia Eastern Time
has the following benefits.
Benefits
Benefit 1
It would use the two letter country code as suggested for single zone countries in
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/Theory
"When a country has a single or principal time zone region, append `T' to the country's ISO code, e.g. `CVT' for Cape Verde Time."
Benefit 2
The code would be easier to understand to all people that know that ID is the ISO country code for Indonesia. A high percentage of people that will see the Indonesian codes will probably know exactly this, since it is also the ccTLD.
Benefit 3
If one day all of Indonesia uses one zone, then the change would be minimal, it would be IDT.
Benefit 4
It would already now better fit with codes from Asian and specifically ASEAN countries. The page http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/asia/ lists Asian zone acronyms and the following acronyms look to me as if they contain the country code. Six countries of the ASEAN region use the country code.
AFT Afghanistan Time AMT Armenia Time AZT Azerbaijan Time BNT Brunei Darussalam Time (ASEAN member) BTT Bhutan Time GET Georgia Standard Time HKT Hong Kong Time KGT Kyrgyzstan Time MYT Malaysia Time (ASEAN member) MMT Myanmar Time (ASEAN member) MVT Maldives Time NPT Nepal Time PHT Philippine Time (ASEAN member) PKT Pakistan Standard Time SGT Singapore Time (ASEAN member) TJT Tajikistan Time TLT East Timor Time (ASEAN candidate) TMT Turkmenistan Time UZT Uzbekistan Time