I second iso country codes.

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From: "Clive D.W. Feather via tz" <tz@iana.org>

Date: 2021-11-05 19:05 (GMT-05:00)

To: Brian Park <brian@xparks.net>

Cc: IANA TZ Database <tz@iana.org>

Subject: Re: [tz] Pre-1970 data

Brian Park via tz said:
>    4) So maybe the solution is to use 2-letter or 3-letter ISO codes,
>    instead of the shortened, quasi-English versions of the country names.
>    So we get things like "CA/Eastern" or "CAN/Eastern", instead of
>    "Canada/Eastern". Not very satisfying for Canadians or many other
>    countries (except for Americans whose ISO codes "US" and "USA" match
>    their colloquial usage perfectly).

Are you ready to jump into the political quagmire that is "GB" versus "UK"?
Something that people are - literally - ready to kill over.

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