[tz] Discussion in ECMA about tz identifiers in JavaScript

[Mark Davis ☕]

>  If CLDR doesn't like the new names,
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it can continue to use the old names
​.

​It isn't that we don't "like" the new names, it's that we need the names
(in zone.tab) not to change once defined.​ So we do exactly as you suggest,
"continue to use the old names".




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On Tue, Mar 5, 2013 at 9:49 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 03/05/2013 12:22 AM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote:
> > The main issue for CLDR and other clients like it is to be able to have
> completely stable
> > canonical identifiers. The zone.tab doesn't quite work for that,
>
> That's fine, but that's a different issue.  Identifiers are not removed
> from the tz database.  Occasionally zones are renamed, but the
> old names continue to work.  If CLDR doesn't like the new names,
> it can continue to use the old names.
>
> Some of the discussion on the ECMA mailing list seems to be assuming
> that tz names can "disappear", or that the Zone names are "unstable",
> but this assumption is incorrect -- unless by "unstable" one means
> that names are sometimes *added* to the database.
>
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