On Wed, 14 Aug 2013, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 08/14/13 08:51, Derick Rethans wrote:
2. Debian's/Raspian's "tzselect" lists for "Asia":
This objection to this change is essentially political. Whether one considers the change to be a significant problem depends on whether one is trying to make the best technical change independent of politics (as I was) or is trying to defer to political considerations of users who look at internal TZ settings and might object to how they're spelled.
I did some asking with a few Croatians, and they definitely found this problematic.
As I think we both agree, people will get upset no matter what, even if we do nothing; it's more a question of how do we lessen the amount of future ire and work for everybody.
Not using city names for tzids would work, but I guess that ship has sailed a few decades ago!
All this being said, it does seem that the recent proposed changes to zone.tab do not have consensus, so as described in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019546.html> I've reverted them in the experimental github version. I'll try to think of a gentler way of insulating this project from future political issues.
Thanks - I appreciate that. In the meanwhile, have a look at this (pretty) map showing all the timezones: http://maps.derickrethans.nl/?l=timezones&lat=50&lon=20&zoom=3 (Built with Eric Muller's shapefiles from http://www.efele.net/maps/tz/world/) cheers, Derick