[tz] Preparing to fork tzdb

[Paul Eggert]

On 9/22/21 11:32 AM, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
> Olsen's original insight to use towns and cities to name time zones 
> turns out to be extraordinarily useful.

As a historical note, the naming convention you're talking about is 
something I originated and contributed to tzdb in 1993. Although I began 
with more-complicated names like Pacific/Fiji/Suva and 
North_America/US/Los_Angeles, the country names (and the "North_") were 
more trouble than they were worth, so I removed them before sending 
patches for Arthur to install.

One of my early emails about my idea concluded that "It looks like this 
will take some time." Which it has.

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1993-October/009233.html