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I think one of the reasons "Country/City" is used is due to variances within a timezone. Take Mountain Time, for example. "America/Denver" is different from "Am
by function_seven 11y ago
I think one of the reasons "Country/City" is used is due to variances within a timezone. Take Mountain Time, for example. "America/Denver" is different from "America/Phoenix" due to Arizona not observing daylight savings time. So in the middle of summer, America/Denver will translate to MDT while America/Phoenix will be MST.
(And I may be further proving your point if Denver isn't the landmark city, I'm just guessing!)
- nvivo 11y agoThe reason for Country/City is because the timezone name is a global reference. It may be written in english, but everybody uses. Things like "pacific", "central" and "standard" mean very different things in other places.
- tankenmate 11y agoIndeed, for many years the Eastern time zone in Australia was shortened to EST (Eastern Standard Time); just like the US Eastern time. With the wider advent of the Internet Australia renamed EST to AEST (Australian Eastern Standard Time).