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On 19.02.19 20:59, Paul Eggert wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:a67544cd-cab5-4cb2-02d7-fe6264061c48@cs.ucla.edu">On
2/19/19 11:14 AM, Hans-Joerg Happel wrote:
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I'd perhaps first suggest to talk about "Identifiers of
timezones" instead of "Names of timezones".
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We can emphasize the "identifier" stuff a bit more, as in the
attached proposed patch. I'm leery of globally replacing "name"
with "identifier" though, as "name" is shorter and makes the text
easier to follow.
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<blockquote type="cite">A second suggestion would be a short note
that it is these identifiers which would be typically stored in
database / system configuration / appointment in order to denote
the time zone of a "thing" and that software will typically pick
up the additional rule data in tzdb in order to compute
meaningful things based on these identifiers. This is sort of
implicit to the given text, but might be pointed out more
explicitly.
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While this may be common practice, I'm not sure we should
recommend it as it's fragile in the presence of timezone splits.
The proposed patch attempts to add a warning along these lines.
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<p>Thanks, both changes look good to me.</p>
<p>Minor note: one might also want to align the URL label in the
first bullet of
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#stability">https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#stability</a><br>
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<p>Best,<br>
Hans-Joerg</p>
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