[tz] Single source of truth for timezone data
Steffen Nurpmeso
steffen at sdaoden.eu
Sat Dec 3 23:15:13 UTC 2022
Guy Harris wrote in
<49DEEDEF-3BA0-4E1C-BFB1-AA372A93F0FD at sonic.net>:
|On Dec 2, 2022, at 7:36 PM, Guy Harris via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
...
|(Yes, tzdb regions can move from one metazone to another.)
|
|So we could, in principle:
...
I would like to also point to UN Locode mappings.
On a different list many of the readers are also on i said about
three weeks ago:
UN Locode support should possibly be supported or reserved as
trade will continue to be the thing, i would suggest via leading
@ plus the five letters which makes up a Locode entry. I would
presume these Locode IDs become known more and more in the
future.
[.]IANA TZ over and over discusses the syntax and content of the
Area/Location IDs as such, and whereas i would assume
backward-compatibility will not be lost, i could imagine a new
maintainer (the current one is on the austin ML and reads this,
sufficient time provided) switches to a new format that serves
ISO 3166 country codes much better, and ISO 3166 country codes
are the base (root level) of UN Locodes.
--steffen
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