International standard doesn't mean world standard. International standard only represent consencus reached by governments around the world, and in TZDB it is not only the governments decided time that are being recorded, but instead it record the time actually used by people for timekeeping on the ground. 在 2021年9月22日週三 21:09，dpatte via tz <tz@iana.org> 寫道：
Iso is a living international standard, and it's their mandate, not the mandate of timezone collectors to do the negotiation and diplomacy in order to arrive at and maintain the world standard.
I certainly don't believe we have the mandate or skillset to ignore the international standard widely used in modern computer technology.
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-------- Original message -------- From: "Clive D.W. Feather via tz" <tz@iana.org> Date: 2021-09-22 03:34 (GMT-05:00) To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> Cc: tz <tz@iana.org> Subject: Re: [tz] Preparing to fork tzdb
Tony Finch said:
Oh, please define "country". Jon Postel deftly answered that question in the 1980s by deferring to ISO 3166,
Except that the ISO 3166 list contained Belorussia and Ukraine, both of which were part of the USSR that was also in the list.
The only reason they were in the list was a 1940s deal to give the USSR three votes in the UN to counter the fact that there were more "western" countries than Warsaw Pact ones.
So there was no genuine logic to that list, just politics.
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