></code>
database contains English abbreviations for many timestamps;
unfortunately some of these abbreviations were merely the database maintainers’
inventions, and these have been removed when possible.</li>
<li>Numeric time zone abbreviations typically count hours east of
<abbr>UT</abbr>, e.g., +09 for Japan and
−10 for Hawaii. However, <abbr>POSIX</abbr> proleptic
<code><abbr>TZ</abbr></code> settings use the opposite convention.
For example, one might use <code><abbr>TZ</abbr>="<abbr
title="Japan S