<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div dir="ltr"><font face="'times new roman', serif"><div style="margin:0px;background-color:transparent"><div></div></div><div style="margin:0px;background-color:transparent"><br></div><div style="margin:0px;background-color:transparent"><a href="https://google.com/+MarkDavis" target="_blank">Mark</a></div><div style="margin:0px;background-color:transparent"><i><br></i></div><div style="margin:0px;background-color:transparent"><i>— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —</i></div></font><div><div><font face="'times new roman', serif"><i><span style="font-style:normal"><i></i></span><i></i></i></font></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:random832@fastmail.us" target="_blank">random832@fastmail.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On Fri, Oct 17, 2014, at 05:41, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:<br>
> Some alias relations are vastly different than others. The distinction<br>
> between Asia/Calcutta and Asia/Kolkata does not matter for the purposes<br>
> of<br>
> localized names; they really identify the same place. So we need to map<br>
> them together for the purpose of getting localized names.<br>
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</span>What is a "localized name"? </blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">A name that is localized to a given language. I gave the example of the Russian </div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:11px">Калькутта<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">.</div></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:11px"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline"><br></div></span></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">The timezone identifiers aren't meant to be<br>
human-readable;</blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif">Yes, that's what I said, if you read it.</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">you should be localizing the descriptions in<br>
zone{1970,}.tab.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">No, for the reasons I gave. Again, it doesn't look like you read completely through what I wrote.</div> </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
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And even disregarding this... no, you don't, you can just localize them<br>
both to the same thing.</blockquote><div> </div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif">Too many missing referents in your sentence to make sense of it.</div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">There aren't _that_ many timezones. Or maintain<br>
your own unification table independent of aliases.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;display:inline">Again, that's what we do do.</div></div></div><br></div></div>