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<p>Just on this point:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 05.11.21 17:42, Brian Park wrote:<br>
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<p>Better to stick with what we have: observe what people
on the ground think the time is.<br>
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<div><span class="gmail_default"
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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". <span
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style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">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</span>
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.<br>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Eliot</p>
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