Sept. 27, 2021
12:44 a.m.
On 9/22/21 11:32 AM, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
Olsen's original insight to use towns and cities to name time zones turns out to be extraordinarily useful.
As a historical note, the naming convention you're talking about is something I originated and contributed to tzdb in 1993. Although I began with more-complicated names like Pacific/Fiji/Suva and North_America/US/Los_Angeles, the country names (and the "North_") were more trouble than they were worth, so I removed them before sending patches for Arthur to install. One of my early emails about my idea concluded that "It looks like this will take some time." Which it has. https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/1993-October/009233.html