Feb. 10, 2017
6:03 p.m.
On 02/10/2017 09:09 AM, Steven R. Loomis wrote:
FWIW CLDR uses LOCODE for tzids in locale ids
The LOCODE scheme suffers from the problem of politics. For example, the CLDR code for Europe/Simferopol is "uasip", which gives the appearance of taking a political position that Crimea is part of Ukraine as opposed to Russia. I suppose we could come up with a different scheme that uses less-emotionally-charged abbreviations. As I recall, someone suggested IATA airport codes a while ago; unfortunately they do not suffice for locations like Pacific/Pitcairn where the nearest IATA airport is not in the same time zone. Which reminds me: I still need to clean out invented time zone abbreviations like PNT from the "australasia" file.