I suspect some of it will be because the legacy form is a bit more intuitive than the standard form. You don’t really use continents and cities as a reference to time zones normally, countries and local subdivisions makes more sense, but as other people note, it brings up POLITICS.

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MartijnBraam 4 days ago | parent [-]

You don't use them normally in the US, I've been referring to europe/amsterdam or europe/paris all my life in Linux installers and various equipment. I've never ever encountered netherlands/amsterdam or something like that.

	▲	Symbiote 4 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		From the list of deprecated zones, we could have been using "GB", "Poland", "Portugal", "CET", but that's about it. "Netherlands" didn't exist. Given the old names were deprecated in 1993, it's hardly surprising that I never before discovered "GB".
	▲	umanwizard 3 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		It’s the same in Europe as it is in the US. Normal people refer to Europe/Paris as CET, just like normal people refer to America/New_York as Eastern Time.