Format issue: wrong timezone name

[AlimovSV]

Environment

{
  moment: '2.30.1',
  momentTz: '0.5.45',
  date: 'Fri Sep 20 2024 15:50:16 GMT+0400 (Самарское стандартное время)',
  intlZone: 'Europe/Samara'
}

Issue description

>  moment.updateLocale('en-au')
...
>  moment('2023-04-17T20:47:08.962599+08:45').tz('Australia/Eucla').format('lll z')
'Apr 17, 2023 8:47 PM +0845'

formatted zone name is +0845 but expected ACWST

> Intl.DateTimeFormat("en-AU", {
...   timeZone: "Australia/Eucla",
...   day: "numeric",
...   month: "short",
...   year: "numeric",
...   hour: "numeric",
...   minute: "numeric",
...   timeZoneName: "short"
... }).format(new Date('2023-04-17T20:47:08.962599+08:45'))
'17 Apr 2023, 8:47 pm ACWST'

Looks like the problem is in the timezone definitions:

{
  name: 'Australia/Eucla',
  abbrs: [
    'LMT',   '+0845', '+0945',
    '+0845', '+0945', '+0845',
    '+0945', '+0845', '+0945',
    '+0845', '+0945', '+0845',
    '+0945', '+0845', '+0945',
    '+0845', '+0945', '+0845',
    '+0945', '+0845'
  ],
  untils: [
    -2337928528000, -1672555500000,
    -1665384300000,  -883637100000,
     -876120300000,  -860395500000,
     -844670700000,   152039700000,
      162926100000,   436295700000,
      447182100000,   690311700000,
      699383700000,  1165079700000,
     1174756500000,  1193505300000,
     1206810900000,  1224954900000,
     1238260500000,       Infinity
  ],
  offsets: [
    -515.4666666666667, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525,
                  -585, -525
  ],
  population: 368
}

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[gilmoreorless]

The abbreviation "ACWST" was originally invented by the lead maintainer of the time zone database, and is not actually the real designation of the zone. The Australia/Eucla zone is for a region that isn't officially recognised by the government as having a separate time zone (it's just a bunch of local towns that change their clocks voluntarily), so there isn't any real abbreviation for the zone.

A few years ago, the tzdb maintainers started removing these previously made-up names and replacing them with plain offsets. The change to Australia/Eucla was done in 2017 (eggert/tz@a25d615) and has been in the Moment Timezone data ever since.

Some browsers have chosen to continue using the deprecated, unofficial names for backwards compatibility. That explains why you still see "ACWST" in the Intl.DateTimeFormat result.

I'm going to keep this issue open, as a reminder to add some documentation about these cases. This isn't the first time that users have been confused by the offsets appearing as zone names.

[bbalwant]

I used moment.tz.guess() to retrieve the current time zone, which returned Asia/Calcutta. However, in the mapping table( Object.keys(zones).forEach(z => {
timeZoneToCountry[z] = countries[zones[z].countries[0]].name;
});),
the corresponding time zone is listed as Asia/Kolkata.

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[rahul-sysquare]

I used moment.tz.guess() to retrieve the current time zone, which returned Asia/Calcutta. However, in the mapping table( Object.keys(zones).forEach(z => { timeZoneToCountry[z] = countries[zones[z].countries[0]].name; });), the corresponding time zone is listed as Asia/Kolkata.

Same issue I'm having in iOS and Android I'm getting different names for timezones. What is the fix for it?

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