[tz] On merging timezones - a radical proposal.

[random832 at fastmail.us]

On Thu, May 23, 2013, at 8:35, John Hawkinson wrote:
> This paragraph from Random832 was just quoted:
> | We already don't handle (to make up an arbitrary example) people
> | who moved from New York to Phoenix in 1992, but spent a month-long
> | vacation in Florida in 2004.
> 
> And I realize I don't understand what this is getting at.
> (Maybe this is unimportant?)
> 
> We don't have zones that track people movements, and I don't see why
> we would. 

Why do we have zones that track _cities'_ movements from one timezone to
another?

It's arbitrary to demand one (to the point of objecting to putting it
behind an 'advanced' option) but not the other.