[tz] [PATCH] New file time.tab, superseding zone.tab

Tobias Conradi tc at tobiasconradi.com
Sun Jul 20 02:00:15 UTC 2014


On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 2:29 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> All the tz code and data are in English only.  There are some hooks for
> localization, and I suppose localization may be done in some downstream
> uses, but nobody has taken the time to systematize this for the tz
> distribution itself.

Hard to do with moving targets. Paul Eggert controls ids, removes
them, repurposes them as he likes. Now new terms appear, "Berlin
time", any major publication that uses this term? Berlin time vs Swiss
time. A Buesingen person will select Swiss time - why?

And Sevastopol does not belong to "Crimea" - whatever that term means
in any of the instances where Paul Eggert uses it:
http://anna.info/wiki/Europe/Simferopol

How shall localization be done, if the content is not even
understandable in English, the project language?
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