[tz] Please include Montreal
Robert Elz
kre at munnari.OZ.AU
Mon Nov 13 22:57:38 UTC 2017
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 12:12:51 -0800
From: Guy Harris <guy at alum.mit.edu>
Message-ID: <1331A59A-26DB-4D0B-8BC2-07448C5F1874 at alum.mit.edu>
| If your UI is expected to be used by people who *aren't* familiar
| with tzdb names, it should not use tzdb names, whether it's a GUI
| interface or not.
The standard way to find out the time in some specified location
is
TZ=something date [+%...]
(in scripts, or on the command line).
If the "something" is not to be a tzdb name, what do you suggest using ?
If tzdb names are to be used there, how would you suggest explaining to
users how that one method is to be used in one place, and a different
method in a different place?
Like it or not, the tzdb identifiers *are* the identifiers used to
name and select time zones. As long as we don't try and read more
into them, than that they are timezone identifiers, that's fine by me.
kre
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