new 14-character abbreviated timezones, with consistent abbreviation of first element

gistfile1.txt

  [1] "Afr/Abidjan"    "Afr/Accra"      "Afr/Addis_Abab" "Afr/Algiers"    "Afr/Asmara"     "Afr/Asmera"    
  [7] "Afr/Bamako"     "Afr/Bangui"     "Afr/Banjul"     "Afr/Bissau"     "Afr/Blantyre"   "Afr/Brazzavill"
 [13] "Afr/Bujumbura"  "Afr/Cairo"      "Afr/Casablanca" "Afr/Ceuta"      "Afr/Conakry"    "Afr/Dakar"     
 [19] "Afr/Dar_es_Slm" "Afr/Djibouti"   "Afr/Douala"     "Afr/El_Aaiun"   "Afr/Freetown"   "Afr/Gaborone"  
 [25] "Afr/Harare"     "Afr/Johannsbrg" "Afr/Juba"       "Afr/Kampala"    "Afr/Khartoum"   "Afr/Kigali"    
 [31] "Afr/Kinshasa"   "Afr/Lagos"      "Afr/Libreville" "Afr/Lome"       "Afr/Luanda"     "Afr/Lubumbashi"
 [37] "Afr/Lusaka"     "Afr/Malabo"     "Afr/Maputo"     "Afr/Maseru"     "Afr/Mbabane"    "Afr/Mogadishu" 
 [43] "Afr/Monrovia"   "Afr/Nairobi"    "Afr/Ndjamena"   "Afr/Niamey"     "Afr/Nouakchott" "Afr/Ouagadougo"
 [49] "Afr/Porto-Novo" "Afr/Sao_Tome"   "Afr/Timbuktu"   "Afr/Tripoli"    "Afr/Tunis"      "Afr/Windhoek"  
 [55] "Amer/Adak"      "Amer/Anchorage" "Amer/Anguilla"  "Amer/Antigua"   "Amer/Araguaina" "Amer/Arg/Bns_A"
 [61] "Amer/Arg/Ctmrc" "Amer/Arg/CmdRv" "Amer/Arg/Cordb" "Amer/Arg/Jujuy" "Amer/Arg/La_Rj" "Amer/Arg/Mendz"
 [67] "Amer/Arg/R_Gll" "Amer/Arg/Salta" "Amer/Arg/Sn_Jn" "Amer/Arg/Sn_Ls" "Amer/Arg/Tucmn" "Amer/Arg/Ushua"
 [73] "Amer/Aruba"     "Amer/Asuncion"  "Amer/Atikokan"  "Amer/Atka"      "Amer/Bahia"     "Amer/Bah_Bndrs"
 [79] "Amer/Barbados"  "Amer/Belem"     "Amer/Belize"    "Amer/Blnc-Sbln" "Amer/Boa_Vista" "Amer/Bogota"   
 [85] "Amer/Boise"     "Amer/Buens_Ars" "Amer/Cmbrdg_By" "Amer/Camp_Grnd" "Amer/Cancun"    "Amer/Caracas"  
 [91] "Amer/Catamarca" "Amer/Cayenne"   "Amer/Cayman"    "Amer/Chicago"   "Amer/Chihuahua" "Amer/Corl_Hrbr"
 [97] "Amer/Cordoba"   "Amer/Costa_Ric" "Amer/Creston"   "Amer/Cuiaba"    "Amer/Curacao"   "Amer/Dnmrkshvn"
[103] "Amer/Dawson"    "Amer/Dawsn_Crk" "Amer/Denver"    "Amer/Detroit"   "Amer/Dominica"  "Amer/Edmonton" 
[109] "Amer/Eirunepe"  "Amer/El_Salvdr" "Amer/Ensenada"  "Amer/Fort_Nlsn" "Amer/Fort_Wayn" "Amer/Fortaleza"
[115] "Amer/Glace_Bay" "Amer/Godthab"   "Amer/Goose_Bay" "Amer/Grand_Trk" "Amer/Grenada"   "Amer/Guadeloup"
[121] "Amer/Guatemala" "Amer/Guayaquil" "Amer/Guyana"    "Amer/Halifax"   "Amer/Havana"    "Amer/Hermosill"
[127] "Amer/IN/Indnpl" "Amer/IN/Knox"   "Amer/IN/Mareng" "Amer/IN/Ptrsbr" "Amer/IN/Tll_Ct" "Amer/IN/Vevay" 
[133] "Amer/IN/Vncnns" "Amer/IN/Winamc" "Amer/Indianpls" "Amer/Inuvik"    "Amer/Iqaluit"   "Amer/Jamaica"  
[139] "Amer/Jujuy"     "Amer/Juneau"    "Amer/KY/Losvll" "Amer/KY/Mntcll" "Amer/Knox_IN"   "Amer/Kralendjk"
[145] "Amer/La_Paz"    "Amer/Lima"      "Amer/Los_Angls" "Amer/Louisvill" "Amer/Lwr_Prncs" "Amer/Maceio"   
[151] "Amer/Managua"   "Amer/Manaus"    "Amer/Marigot"   "Amer/Martiniqu" "Amer/Matamoros" "Amer/Mazatlan" 
[157] "Amer/Mendoza"   "Amer/Menominee" "Amer/Merida"    "Amer/Metlakatl" "Amer/Mexic_Cty" "Amer/Miquelon" 
[163] "Amer/Moncton"   "Amer/Monterrey" "Amer/Montevide" "Amer/Montreal"  "Amer/Montserrt" "Amer/Nassau"   
[169] "Amer/New_York"  "Amer/Nipigon"   "Amer/Nome"      "Amer/Noronha"   "Amer/ND/Beulah" "Amer/ND/Center"
[175] "Amer/ND/Nw_Slm" "Amer/Ojinaga"   "Amer/Panama"    "Amer/Pangnrtng" "Amer/Paramarib" "Amer/Phoenix"  
[181] "Amer/Prt_f_Spn" "Amer/Prt--Prnc" "Amer/Porto_Acr" "Amer/Porto_Vlh" "Amer/Puerto_Rc" "Amer/Punt_Arns"
[187] "Amer/Rainy_Rvr" "Amer/Rnkn_Inlt" "Amer/Recife"    "Amer/Regina"    "Amer/Resolute"  "Amer/Rio_Branc"
[193] "Amer/Rosario"   "Amer/Sant_Isbl" "Amer/Santarem"  "Amer/Santiago"  "Amer/Sant_Dmng" "Amer/Sao_Paulo"
[199] "Amer/Scrsbysnd" "Amer/Shiprock"  "Amer/Sitka"     "Amer/St_Brthlm" "Amer/St_Johns"  "Amer/St_Kitts" 
[205] "Amer/St_Lucia"  "Amer/St_Thomas" "Amer/St_Vincnt" "Amer/Swft_Crrn" "Amer/Teguciglp" "Amer/Thule"    
[211] "Amer/Thundr_By" "Amer/Tijuana"   "Amer/Toronto"   "Amer/Tortola"   "Amer/Vancouver" "Amer/Virgin"   
[217] "Amer/Whitehors" "Amer/Winnipeg"  "Amer/Yakutat"   "Amer/Yellowknf" "Ant/Casey"      "Ant/Davis"     
[223] "Ant/DmntDUrvll" "Ant/Macquarie"  "Ant/Mawson"     "Ant/McMurdo"    "Ant/Palmer"     "Ant/Rothera"   
[229] "Ant/South_Pole" "Ant/Syowa"      "Ant/Troll"      "Ant/Vostok"     "Arc/Longyerbyn" "Asia/Aden"     
[235] "Asia/Almaty"    "Asia/Amman"     "Asia/Anadyr"    "Asia/Aqtau"     "Asia/Aqtobe"    "Asia/Ashgabat" 
[241] "Asia/Ashkhabad" "Asia/Atyrau"    "Asia/Baghdad"   "Asia/Bahrain"   "Asia/Baku"      "Asia/Bangkok"  
[247] "Asia/Barnaul"   "Asia/Beirut"    "Asia/Bishkek"   "Asia/Brunei"    "Asia/Calcutta"  "Asia/Chita"    
[253] "Asia/Choibalsn" "Asia/Chongqing" "Asia/Chungking" "Asia/Colombo"   "Asia/Dacca"     "Asia/Damascus" 
[259] "Asia/Dhaka"     "Asia/Dili"      "Asia/Dubai"     "Asia/Dushanbe"  "Asia/Famagusta" "Asia/Gaza"     
[265] "Asia/Harbin"    "Asia/Hebron"    "Asia/Ho_Ch_Mnh" "Asia/Hong_Kong" "Asia/Hovd"      "Asia/Irkutsk"  
[271] "Asia/Istanbul"  "Asia/Jakarta"   "Asia/Jayapura"  "Asia/Jerusalem" "Asia/Kabul"     "Asia/Kamchatka"
[277] "Asia/Karachi"   "Asia/Kashgar"   "Asia/Kathmandu" "Asia/Katmandu"  "Asia/Khandyga"  "Asia/Kolkata"  
[283] "Asia/Krasnyrsk" "Asia/Kual_Lmpr" "Asia/Kuching"   "Asia/Kuwait"    "Asia/Macao"     "Asia/Macau"    
[289] "Asia/Magadan"   "Asia/Makassar"  "Asia/Manila"    "Asia/Muscat"    "Asia/Nicosia"   "Asia/Novkzntsk"
[295] "Asia/Novosbrsk" "Asia/Omsk"      "Asia/Oral"      "Asia/Phnom_Pnh" "Asia/Pontianak" "Asia/Pyongyang"
[301] "Asia/Qatar"     "Asia/Qyzylorda" "Asia/Rangoon"   "Asia/Riyadh"    "Asia/Saigon"    "Asia/Sakhalin" 
[307] "Asia/Samarkand" "Asia/Seoul"     "Asia/Shanghai"  "Asia/Singapore" "Asia/Srdnklyms" "Asia/Taipei"   
[313] "Asia/Tashkent"  "Asia/Tbilisi"   "Asia/Tehran"    "Asia/Tel_Aviv"  "Asia/Thimbu"    "Asia/Thimphu"  
[319] "Asia/Tokyo"     "Asia/Tomsk"     "Asia/Ujng_Pndn" "Asia/Ulaanbatr" "Asia/Ulan_Batr" "Asia/Urumqi"   
[325] "Asia/Ust-Nera"  "Asia/Vientiane" "Asia/Vladivstk" "Asia/Yakutsk"   "Asia/Yangon"    "Asia/Yektrnbrg"
[331] "Asia/Yerevan"   "Atl/Azores"     "Atl/Bermuda"    "Atl/Canary"     "Atl/Cape_Verde" "Atl/Faeroe"    
[337] "Atl/Faroe"      "Atl/Jan_Mayen"  "Atl/Madeira"    "Atl/Reykjavik"  "Atl/South_Gerg" "Atl/St_Helena" 
[343] "Atl/Stanley"    "Aus/ACT"        "Aus/Adelaide"   "Aus/Brisbane"   "Aus/Broken_Hll" "Aus/Canberra"  
[349] "Aus/Currie"     "Aus/Darwin"     "Aus/Eucla"      "Aus/Hobart"     "Aus/LHI"        "Aus/Lindeman"  
[355] "Aus/Lord_Howe"  "Aus/Melbourne"  "Aus/North"      "Aus/NSW"        "Aus/Perth"      "Aus/Queensland"
[361] "Aus/South"      "Aus/Sydney"     "Aus/Tasmania"   "Aus/Victoria"   "Aus/West"       "Aus/Yancowinna"
[367] "Brazil/Acre"    "Brazil/DeNornh" "Brazil/East"    "Brazil/West"    "Can/Atlantic"   "Can/Central"   
[373] "Can/Est-Ssktch" "Can/Eastern"    "Can/Mountain"   "Can/Newfondlnd" "Can/Pacific"    "Can/Saskatchwn"
[379] "Can/Yukon"      "CET"            "Chl/Continentl" "Chl/EastrIslnd" "CST6CDT"        "Cuba"          
[385] "EET"            "Egypt"          "Eire"           "EST"            "EST5EDT"        "Etc/GMT"       
[391] "Etc/GMT-0"      "Etc/GMT-1"      "Etc/GMT-10"     "Etc/GMT-11"     "Etc/GMT-12"     "Etc/GMT-13"    
[397] "Etc/GMT-14"     "Etc/GMT-2"      "Etc/GMT-3"      "Etc/GMT-4"      "Etc/GMT-5"      "Etc/GMT-6"     
[403] "Etc/GMT-7"      "Etc/GMT-8"      "Etc/GMT-9"      "Etc/GMT+0"      "Etc/GMT+1"      "Etc/GMT+10"    
[409] "Etc/GMT+11"     "Etc/GMT+12"     "Etc/GMT+2"      "Etc/GMT+3"      "Etc/GMT+4"      "Etc/GMT+5"     
[415] "Etc/GMT+6"      "Etc/GMT+7"      "Etc/GMT+8"      "Etc/GMT+9"      "Etc/GMT0"       "Etc/Greenwich" 
[421] "Etc/UCT"        "Etc/Universal"  "Etc/UTC"        "Etc/Zulu"       "Eur/Amsterdam"  "Eur/Andorra"   
[427] "Eur/Astrakhan"  "Eur/Athens"     "Eur/Belfast"    "Eur/Belgrade"   "Eur/Berlin"     "Eur/Bratislava"
[433] "Eur/Brussels"   "Eur/Bucharest"  "Eur/Budapest"   "Eur/Busingen"   "Eur/Chisinau"   "Eur/Copenhagen"
[439] "Eur/Dublin"     "Eur/Gibraltar"  "Eur/Guernsey"   "Eur/Helsinki"   "Eur/Isle_of_Mn" "Eur/Istanbul"  
[445] "Eur/Jersey"     "Eur/Kaliningrd" "Eur/Kiev"       "Eur/Kirov"      "Eur/Lisbon"     "Eur/Ljubljana" 
[451] "Eur/London"     "Eur/Luxembourg" "Eur/Madrid"     "Eur/Malta"      "Eur/Mariehamn"  "Eur/Minsk"     
[457] "Eur/Monaco"     "Eur/Moscow"     "Eur/Nicosia"    "Eur/Oslo"       "Eur/Paris"      "Eur/Podgorica" 
[463] "Eur/Prague"     "Eur/Riga"       "Eur/Rome"       "Eur/Samara"     "Eur/San_Marino" "Eur/Sarajevo"  
[469] "Eur/Saratov"    "Eur/Simferopol" "Eur/Skopje"     "Eur/Sofia"      "Eur/Stockholm"  "Eur/Tallinn"   
[475] "Eur/Tirane"     "Eur/Tiraspol"   "Eur/Ulyanovsk"  "Eur/Uzhgorod"   "Eur/Vaduz"      "Eur/Vatican"   
[481] "Eur/Vienna"     "Eur/Vilnius"    "Eur/Volgograd"  "Eur/Warsaw"     "Eur/Zagreb"     "Eur/Zaporozhye"
[487] "Eur/Zurich"     "GB"             "GB-Eire"        "GMT"            "GMT-0"          "GMT+0"         
[493] "GMT0"           "Greenwich"      "Hongkong"       "HST"            "Iceland"        "Ind/Antananarv"
[499] "Ind/Chagos"     "Ind/Christmas"  "Ind/Cocos"      "Ind/Comoro"     "Ind/Kerguelen"  "Ind/Mahe"      
[505] "Ind/Maldives"   "Ind/Mauritius"  "Ind/Mayotte"    "Ind/Reunion"    "Iran"           "Israel"        
[511] "Jamaica"        "Japan"          "Kwajalein"      "Libya"          "MET"            "Mex/BajaNorte" 
[517] "Mex/BajaSur"    "Mex/General"    "MST"            "MST7MDT"        "Navajo"         "NZ"            
[523] "NZ-CHAT"        "Pac/Apia"       "Pac/Auckland"   "Pac/Bougainvll" "Pac/Chatham"    "Pac/Chuuk"     
[529] "Pac/Easter"     "Pac/Efate"      "Pac/Enderbury"  "Pac/Fakaofo"    "Pac/Fiji"       "Pac/Funafuti"  
[535] "Pac/Galapagos"  "Pac/Gambier"    "Pac/Guadalcanl" "Pac/Guam"       "Pac/Honolulu"   "Pac/Johnston"  
[541] "Pac/Kiritimati" "Pac/Kosrae"     "Pac/Kwajalein"  "Pac/Majuro"     "Pac/Marquesas"  "Pac/Midway"    
[547] "Pac/Nauru"      "Pac/Niue"       "Pac/Norfolk"    "Pac/Noumea"     "Pac/Pago_Pago"  "Pac/Palau"     
[553] "Pac/Pitcairn"   "Pac/Pohnpei"    "Pac/Ponape"     "Pac/Port_Mrsby" "Pac/Rarotonga"  "Pac/Saipan"    
[559] "Pac/Samoa"      "Pac/Tahiti"     "Pac/Tarawa"     "Pac/Tongatapu"  "Pac/Truk"       "Pac/Wake"      
[565] "Pac/Wallis"     "Pac/Yap"        "Poland"         "Portugal"       "PRC"            "PST8PDT"       
[571] "ROC"            "ROK"            "Singapore"      "Turkey"         "UCT"            "Universal"     
[577] "US/Alaska"      "US/Aleutian"    "US/Arizona"     "US/Central"     "US/East-Indian" "US/Eastern"    
[583] "US/Hawaii"      "US/Indian-Strk" "US/Michigan"    "US/Mountain"    "US/Pacific"     "US/Pacific-New"
[589] "US/Samoa"       "UTC"            "VERSION"        "W-SU"           "WET"            "Zulu"