[tz] tzdb timezone names/identifiers and links

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Tue Feb 26 09:05:34 UTC 2019


On Feb 26, 2019, at 12:57 AM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:

> On 26/02/2019 08:41, Guy Harris wrote:
>> rather than just throwing an arbitrary list of*some*  location names at the user.
> 
> More likely to get the WHOLE tz list without even an option to select which continent!

Any UI developer who chooses to do that should be banned from doing any UI development without adult supervision.

Or, at least, banned from doing any tzdb region selection UI code before seeing both macOS's tzdb region selector and Ubuntu 18.04's tzdb region selector (Ubuntu, not Kubuntu) to see what *can* and *should* be done.


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