IANA time zone database

Abbreviations

• Internationalized time point unique time zone abbreviations
• http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018362.html - proposal to improve them

Bugs

Country	Description
Australia	EST and CST are used as acronyms for AEST/AEDT and CEST/CEDT, i.e. during DST one cannot tell from the acronym what zone is meant.
Norway	No IANA zone defined for Bouvet Island http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/5218/

Localization

CLDR

http://unicode.org/repos/cldr/trunk/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml

• territory 001 - might refer to the UN M.49 code for "World".