Like I said, we don't know anything worth having a real discussion about. Maybe he was in the +03 time zone, and pretending to be in +08, but that's not enough to base a discussion on.
So this whole thread is based on the premise that the OP was using the formal definition of "discuss" rather than the informal one? Which is almost certainly not true?
Either kind of discussion is useless since the "evidence" (timezone IDs in strings that are not required to have any relation whatsoever with reality) is flimsy to begin with.