[plt-scheme] Suggestion for (lib "date.ss"): add timezone to 'american
I start at the US Naval Observatory for information regarding clocks
and time.
This has all the single-letter world time zone abbreviations (e.g.,
Z=Zulu=GMT=UTC):
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/faq/docs/world_tzones.php
I've seen -0700 written as UTC-0700 and GMT-0700.
This list of commonly used abbreviations looks decent:
http://www.timeanddate.com/library/abbreviations/timezones/
but there are more...
http://wwp.greenwichmeantime.com/time-zone/time-zones.htm
http://www.timegenie.com/timezones.php
http://www.worldtimezone.com/wtz-names/timezonenames.html
On my computer, there's some interesting time zone info in my
PostgreSQL installation:
/opt/local/share/postgresql82/timezonesets (readable ASCII)
But the pièce de résistance, gobs of time zone info for hackers:
http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Geoffrey