Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
- The much referenced issue of 1.4 billion+ people on Beijing time being semantically mismatched to their timezone entry, which for lack of meaningful alternative timezone identification strings winds up getting displayed to users. - The need for a shared database of decent multilingual timezone names and descriptions. - The problem of how to display a timezone to the user that is detected via zone.tab and GeoIP, or similar methods.
Aren't these requirements addressed by the Unicode common locale data repository? http://cldr.unicode.org/ Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch <dot@dotat.at> http://dotat.at/ Forties, Cromarty: East, veering southeast, 4 or 5, occasionally 6 at first. Rough, becoming slight or moderate. Showers, rain at first. Moderate or good, occasionally poor at first.