<html><head></head><body>I'm pretty sure that's what Guy is saying. If you define your UI based on tzdb zone names, your UI is broken.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On November 13, 2017 9:17:55 AM EST, Paul.Koning@dell.com wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre class="k9mail"><br /><br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #729fcf; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Nov 11, 2017, at 9:06 PM, Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> wrote:<br /> <br /> On Nov 11, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Zefram <zefram@fysh.org> wrote:<br /> <br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 1ex 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid #ad7fa8; padding-left: 1ex;"> It's not a database of cities but of timezones.<br /></blockquote> <br /> 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.<br /></blockquote><br />No. Tzdb isn't a UI, and doesn't define a UI. UI design is a separate activity, and it's not constrained by tzdb. It would be perfectly valid to offer a UI that has 10k city names in it as a way to set the correct tz for your system.<br /><br /> paul<br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>