[tz] Please include Montreal
Paul.Koning at dell.com
Paul.Koning at dell.com
Mon Nov 13 14:17:55 UTC 2017
> On Nov 11, 2017, at 9:06 PM, Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu> wrote:
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> On Nov 11, 2017, at 5:27 PM, Zefram <zefram at fysh.org> wrote:
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>> It's not a database of cities but of timezones.
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> 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.
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.
paul
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