[tz] Swiss time selectable for Germany

Benjamin Drung benjamin.drung at canonical.com
Sun Jan 8 01:55:44 UTC 2023


On Sat, 2023-01-07 at 19:25 -0500, Arthur David Olson via tz wrote:
> Wikipedia's least esoteric alternative to "exclave'" is "detached
> part." (Wikipedia's most entertaining alternative is "peculiar.")
> 
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enclave_and_exclave#Origin_and_usage
> 
>     @dashdashado
> 
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2023, 7:19 PM Paul Eggert via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
> > On 2023-01-07 15:12, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > > In the context of Germany, Büsingen is an exclave.
> > 
> > Good point, thanks. However, "exclave" is so esoteric that I expect
> > it'd 
> > be more trouble than it's worth. I installed the attached.

I have been knowing the word and meaning "exclave" for a long time.
Having exclave in the comment would easily explain why it had a timezone
difference, but this information is not important for selecting the
timezone. So I am fine with dropping "exclave".

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Benjamin Drung
Debian & Ubuntu Developer



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