It would actually be better to have no geopolitical information in the database. Geonames.org and statoids.com do that. Geonames links geonameids directly to 'Olson' time zone names. It would be great to have polygons as a normative part of the data but organising hierarchies are available elsewhere. Julian
On 17 Mar 2014, at 21:44, "Garrett Wollman" <wollman@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
<<On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 14:37:00 -0700, Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> said:
On Mar 17, 2014, at 2:00 PM, Garrett Wollman <wollman@csail.mit.edu> wrote:
<<On Mon, 17 Mar 2014 13:51:40 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> said:
As for whether zone.tab should say UA or RU for Simferopol, we don't have the resources to arbitrate disputes like that either. If this turns into a real dispute that starts taking up our resources, then we'll need to change zone.tab's format so that it is less of a political flashpoint. This will entail some technical conversion hassles, but in the long run that'll less work for us and for our users than the neverending political hassles.
No, that just pushes the work onto the downstream distributors.
Which work?
The work of figuring out which "country" uses the various timezones.
-GAWollman
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