Time Zone Localizations

Mark Davis mark.davis at jtcsv.com
Mon Jun 14 04:22:58 UTC 2004


I must not be making the situation clear. The internal code is invariant across
locales. But the "display name" for that code will change dramatically. That is,
the TZID will not change. But its representation to local users must; because
they may not know English. For example, "Europe/London" will remain constant.
But the "display name" for it will reflect the representations of London (or
"British Time"), such as the following:

"Londain": ·ga·
"Londen": ·nl·
"London": ·da· ·en· ·fr· ·sv·
"Londra": ·it·
"Londres": ·es· ·pt·
"Lontoo": ·fi·
"ロンドン": ·ja·
"伦敦": ·zh·
"倫敦": ·zh_Hant·
"런던": ·ko·

Expecting otherwise is like expecting you to recognize 倫敦 as the name of a TZID.

Mark
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Guy Harris" <guy at alum.mit.edu>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Masayoshi Okutsu" <Masayoshi.Okutsu at sun.com>; <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
Sent: Sun, 2004 Jun 13 20:14
Subject: Re: Time Zone Localizations


> On Sat, Jun 12, 2004 at 09:24:34AM -0700, Mark Davis wrote:
> > I think we may be talking past one another. LDML provide for a way to
*localize*
> > the Olson TZIDs. For example, you can localize the term "Asia/Singapore".
>
> Actually, "Asia/Singapore" is, in the Olson code, a relative pathname,
> so, in all locales, it's "Asia/Singapore" - i.e., the localization
> function is a no-op.
>
> You might want to localize a textual description of that region, but
> that's a different matter.
>
>




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