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by benced 1105 days ago
Also report it using IATA time zones (America/Los_Angeles) at least in addition (I'd argue instead of) those abbreviations which are completely unstandardized and not unique.
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If the world were fair, we’d be calling these Eggert time zones, as Paul Eggert (longtime tzdata maintainer until the copyright trolls came) invented them; but it isn’t.

(You probably still meant IANA the Internet org not IATA the aviation one.)

Is there context on this? I'd be interested in the history of what happened and why Eggert is no longer involved.