Human readable names of the time-zones.

[musically-ut]

Printing the TimeZone in debug mode (i.e. using {:?} formatter) shows a correct name of the zone but that does not seem like a kosher way of arriving at the names.

I couldn't find another way. Since the Tz is an enum, it cannot provide an attribute like .name (re: #1). Also, providing a .to_string() (i.e. implementing a Display trait), is tricky because a time-zone can have several names depending on the context, e.g. both Asia/Kolkata and IST can be seen as expected outputs of .to_string().

Perhaps the Debug implementation can be moved to a function get_name which returns a String and then implementation of Debug could be:

impl Debug for Tz {
    fn fmt(&self, f: &mut Formatter) -> Result<(), Error> {
        write!(f, "{}", get_name(self))
    }
}

What do you think?

[djzin]

Hm, yes this seems like something that could be provided
Also relevant are the 'offset' names like 'CET' that get printed with datetimes but aren't publicly accessible
Probably would give a &'static str rather than a String

[musically-ut]

Sounds like a good idea.

However, don't the abbreviations change depending on DST, e.g. CDST and CDT?