Sept. 23, 2021
5:36 p.m.
On 9/22/21 3:08 PM, Stephen Colebourne via tz wrote:
there is now no way to tell whether a Link is a true alias (a spelling change) or a meaningful ID like Europe/Oslo.
Sure, but this has always been true of Links; there's nothing new here. For example, the very first edition of 'backward', back in 1993, had this Link: Link Australia/Sydney Australia/ACT even though Sydney is not in the Australian Capital Territory. That's not a simple spelling change; it's a meaningful ID, if one's definition of "meaningful" includes political meanings. Europe/Oslo is similar to Australia/ACT in this respect.