On May 6, 2013, at 3:01 PM, <yoshito_umaoka@us.ibm.com> <yoshito_umaoka@us.ibm.com> wrote:
..."Asia/Jerusalem" is just a zone identifier. This might be similar to "Asia/Shanghai" vs. "Asia/Beijing" discussion. If the way of display a zone is problematic, then it should be resolved by the code formatting the zone name.
Exactly. The presentation of time zone choices is a user interface design choice, entirely outside the scope of the TZ project.
But the tz database maintainer may still consider this because the tz database can stay away from the political conflict.
NO! The TZ process is NOT a political process. I strongly object to any of these attempts to make it so. There are a whole lot of political issues in the world. This one is merely one of them, perhaps better known than some others for reasons I will not discuss here (because I'm writing in a technical forum, not a political one). But if we get suckered into making changes for this one, we may next get into a debate about the Falkland Islands, Taiwan, or any number of other places that some politicians disagree about. Again, I do not want any part of that sort of nonsense. It has no place in a technical group such as the TZ project. paul