[tz] [PATCH 00/10] Zone Table Comments

[J William Piggott]

On 03/07/2016 05:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>On 03/07/2016 02:13 PM, J William Piggott wrote:
>>  1) -0350 - NL; Labrador (southeast)   15) -06 - ON (Rainy R, Ft Frances)
>>  2) -04 - Labrador (most areas)        16) -06 - ON (west); Manitoba
>>  3) -04 - NS (Cape Breton)             17) -06 - SK (midwest)
>>  4) -04 - NS (most areas); PE          18) -06 - SK (most areas)
>>  5) -04 - New Brunswick                19) -07 - AB; BC (E); SK (W)
>>  6) -04 - QC (Lower North Shore)       20) -07 - BC (Creston)
>>  7) -05 - NU (Pangnirtung)             21) -07 - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John)
>>  8) -05 - NU (most east areas)         22) -07 - BC (Ft Nelson)
>>  9) -05 - ON (Atikokan); NU (Coral H)  23) -07 - NT (central)
>> 10) -05 - ON (Thunder Bay)             24) -07 - NT (west)
>> 11) -05 - ON, QC (most areas)          25) -07 - NU (west)
>> 12) -05 - ON, QC (no DST 1967-73)      26) -08 - BC (most areas)
>> 13) -06 - NU (Resolute)                27) -08 - Yukon (north)
>> 14) -06 - NU (central)                 28) -08 - Yukon (south)
>
>I don't know, I find this list to be confusing. If I see an entry "3)
>-04  NS ..." I won't know offhand whether to type "3" or "4" or "04". I
>think I'd feel more comfortable with "AST+ADT" instead of "-04".

Currently tzselect > Africa > Congo (Dem. Rep.) is formatted
this way. I don't think it is difficult to discern the
select token.

This format improves readability in another way , by aligning
the local region names in a column.

It uses the least number of characters (which is important for
zone table comments). It goes along with your push to use
offsets instead of alpha zone abbreviations. As already
mentioned, facilitates the elimination of manually sorting the
zone tables.

Having said that, to fully evaluate this concept, a demo zone
table should be created; then it's tzselect output can be
compared directly against the current tzselect output.

I'll try to make time to do that. Unless you're firmly against
this format concept?