Isn't that just a matter of having your library differentiate the timezones slightly,even if the canonical name is identical for the two different timezones (no matter what the country calls them, they really are different)? Additionally, there are ways to reference the timezone in the local time that are guaranteed to be unique. For example, offset from UTC. 1:15 AM UTC-09 is not the same as 1:15 AM UTC-08.
What localities do you know of that just change the hour and do not have a time zone assigned to deal with it? I'm fairly sure the point of time zones it to track all those changes, and a name would be assigned to deal with it.
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Isn't that just a matter of having your library differentiate the timezones slightly,even if the canonical name is identical for the two different timezones (no matter what the country calls them, they really are different)? Additionally, there are ways to reference the timezone in the local time that are guaranteed to be unique. For example, offset from UTC. 1:15 AM UTC-09 is not the same as 1:15 AM UTC-08.
What localities do you know of that just change the hour and do not have a time zone assigned to deal with it? I'm fairly sure the point of time zones it to track all those changes, and a name would be assigned to deal with it.