[tz] Proposal to change Macquarie Island to be Australian territory

random832 at fastmail.us random832 at fastmail.us
Thu Apr 18 18:01:43 UTC 2013


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013, at 13:58, Guy Harris wrote:
> Presumably by "understand" you mean "have a file with the appropriate
> pathname"; I don't think software should "understand" the identifiers
> except by using them to construct pathnames of Olson-database files to
> load - it shouldn't "know" the pathname syntax or "know" what particular
> values of particular components of the pathname "mean".

The timezone identifier is used as a key in other databases, such as
CLDR (whose maintainers have, IIRC, declined to recognize any changes
made to the identifiers used for existing timezones)


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