[tz] Time zone updates (was: Re: Please include Montreal)

[Deborah Goldsmith]

> (Speaking of Apple: Deborah, does this:
> 
> 	https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206986
> 
> mean Apple's now sending tzdb updates out independently of release updates?)

The updates described by that support article do include the TZ database, and the updates are distributed independently of OS software updates. The article also describes the minimum OS releases that support this.

Debbie

> On Nov 11, 2017, at 9:06 PM, Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Nov 11, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Zefram <zefram at fysh.org> wrote:
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>> It's not a database of cities but of timezones.
> 
> So every UI that offers a list of tzdb names (or tzdb names slightly tweaked by replacing underscores with blanks, or whatever) as if it were a list of cities is broken.
> 
> If that's what Linux Mint offers, the developers of the GUI it offers to choose a time zone should look at how Apple does it.  No tzdb zone names visible whatsoever; just a map where you can pick your location, a text box in which you can see a drop-down list of cities near the location or type in a city name (and, yes, they have Montreal), and an option to just let the system pick the time zone automatically (presumably it uses Location Services, which, on a Mac, uses Wi-Fi and, presumably, a database of networks, and looks the location up in a map).
> 
> (Speaking of Apple: Deborah, does this:
> 
> 	https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT206986
> 
> mean Apple's now sending tzdb updates out independently of release updates?)