[tz] Proposal to deprecate "." and "-" in zone names

Tobias Conradi tobias.conradi at gmail.com
Thu May 24 22:56:51 UTC 2012


On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Clive D.W. Feather <clive at davros.org> wrote:
> Tobias Conradi said:
>> "." is not used, document current usage. Reduce number of possible variations.
>
> What about places that have a dot in their official name?
Dot would be removed or replaced with "_" and double "_" would be
reduced to single "_"

Already now names are changed to fit into the naming restrictions,
Bahia de Banderas got a whole word (de) removed, others loose the
apostrophe.

>> Reduce number of possible variations.
>
> What about places that have a hyphen in their official name?
Hyphen would be replaced with "_"

>> Avoid discussions about names as
>> happened with the zone proposal for the Crozet Islands "Alfred-Faure"
>> vs "Alfred Faure".
>
> That's a discussion about which is the official name.
Exactly, and it would be avoided by following the proposal and
deprecating "." and "-"

> If a zone was ever
> needed for Leigh-on-Sea, then "Leigh on Sea" would be just plain
> wrong, as would "Leigh" (which is a different place).
It wouldn't be wrong. Bahia_Banderas is not wrong, despite the place's
name being "Bahia de Banderas".

The IANA time zone database can define zone names and then by
definition if they follow the rules they are not wrong.

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