[tz] Pre-1970 data
Eliot Lear
lear at lear.ch
Fri Nov 5 18:18:38 UTC 2021
Just on this point:
On 05.11.21 17:42, Brian Park wrote:
>
> Better to stick with what we have: observe what people on the
> ground think the time is.
>
> I've seen this a few times, but I don't understand it. No normal
> person on the ground thinks their time is "America/Los_Angeles". It's
> "US/Pacific". No normal person in Toronto thinks their time is
> "America/Toronto". Their country is not even America. They think their
> timezone is "Canada/Eastern". People are forced to use
> "America/Los_Angeles" or "America/Toronto" because the TZDB forced
> that nomenclature upon our users. It seems a mapping layer, like the
> 'countryzone' file containing ISO-countries, would be the one that
> provides the timezones that people use on the ground.
>
Second verse, same as the first: these are database keys, not user
interface presentation. Nobody is forced to present any database key to
a user. If you have locale awareness, as most modern user-facing
systems have, you're going to be far more granular anyway.
Eliot
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