Comment 1 for bug 1734967

Hi Thomas,

I have verified and I confirm this is not a bug, this change was done in tzdata upstream intentionally. If you think this change cause a regression, the first step would be to report it to tzdata upstream.

commit 2999bb5bee719acbba8b9dd50fb9fb00c7788623
Author: Paul Eggert <email address hidden>
Date: Tue Dec 27 23:14:02 2016 -0800

    Remove some invented abbreviations in ‘europe’

    * NEWS: Document this.
    * europe (America/Danmarkshavn, America/Scoresbysund, America/Godthab)
    (Atlantic/Reykjavik, Europe/Amsterdam, Atlantic/Azores)
    (Atlantic/Madeira, Europe/Zaporozhye):
    Use numeric time zone abbreviations instead of invented ones,
    for time zones with UT offsets that are integer minutes.
    ...

 Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 # Nuuk
- -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00
- -3:00 EU WG%sT
+ -3:00 - -03 1980 Apr 6 2:00
+ -3:00 EU -03/-02

- Eric