On Thu, 11 Oct 2012, Guy Harris wrote:
On Oct 11, 2012, at 6:59 PM, Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
Please find attached my proposal
It's actually just plain text (with an unnecessary <pre> before it), so here it is:
# This file is in the public domain. # Author: Walter Stanish <walter@stani.sh> (2012-10-12) # # This file collapses multiple time zones in to a reduced # number of modern "time zones" (in the natural language # semantic sense) within the 'Collapsed/*' namespace for # user modern interface display purposes.
In my opinion, this does not belong in the timezone database, but rather in a convenience layer within your project - or the Unicode's Consortiums CLDR (http://cldr.unicode.org/). The CLDR already as a large number of those user-friendly names in many languages already too. F.e.: http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/charts/supplemental/zone_tzid.html And in the common/main/<country>.xml files that you can download off http://unicode.org/Public/cldr/22/ cheers, Derick