Time zones: the localized GMT formats

[Shervin Afshar]

>
> This is entirely up to you, but I'm personally having a hard time seeing
> the value of a "short" time format with just hours and no minutes.


Not to mention the confusion this would cause with time-zones with
fractions of an hour; e.g. Tehran UTC+3:30 != Moscow UTC+3.

↪ Shervin

On Fri, Mar 13, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Doug Ewell <doug at ewellic.org> wrote:

> Jon Zeppieri <zeppieri at gmail dot com> wrote:
>
> > More troubling, however, is that in the general case, I don't know how
> > to generate the short form using this data. While it's easy to strip
> > out the "mm" portion of this when it's not needed, I don't know, in
> > general, how to deal with separators or possibly literal portions of
> > this pattern that should be removed along with the "mm." For example,
> > in this particular case, I know that I'd have to remove the colon
> > before the minute pattern, but I imagine that a locale could use
> > something like: "HH 'hours', mm 'minutes'," and I would not know to
> > remove the entirety of ", mm 'minutes'" without treating it as a
> > special case.
>
> This is entirely up to you, but I'm personally having a hard time seeing
> the value of a "short" time format with just hours and no minutes. Many
> people would see that as shortened to the point of being unusable.
>
> I realize this is orthogonal to your question.
>
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