[tz] Swiss time selectable for Germany

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Jan 10 07:14:57 UTC 2023


On 2023-01-08 23:19, Peter Krefting via tz wrote:
>    #? 11
>    Please enter coordinates in ISO 6709 notation.
>    For example, +4042-07403 stands for
>    40 degrees 42 minutes north, 74 degrees 3 minutes west.
>    +6000+1000
>    Please select one of the following timezones, echo listed roughly in 
> increasing order of distance from +6000+1000.
>     1) Germany, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Svalbard & Jan Mayen - Germany 
> (all other areas)

Yes, that's pretty bad. Thanks for pointing it out. I installed the 
attached patches; please give them a try.

> my UI is based on time, as the system is most likely to have a
> valid UTC time, so the user will first select the current wall-clock time
> and then a location for that time.

Nice idea.
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