Steffen Nurpmeso wrote in <20210528222347.U4cDq%steffen@sdaoden.eu>: |Stephen Colebourne wrote in | <CACzrW9BnYgeYEcnfzDyVB6J4r2i_dZfnCE5jBDC-f6pdbAB+Uw@mail.gmail.com>: ||This change would make sense if no pre-1970 data was available for any ||zone (including LMT). But instead what users get is the data of ||somewhere else. || ||For example, Norway's and Sweden's time zone history is being wiped ||out in favour of that of Germany. Can no-one here see the political ||sensitivity in that? I find it astonishing that this comes up over and over again. Like i said in 2019, Paul Eggert once said something about numeric IDs. I like the idea of giving an anonymous ID to unique timezone "paths", and instead using links which point to the paths. You know, what now is Europe/Berlin would be whatever airplane registration, and Europe/Berlin /Stockholm /xy would simply point to that, for example Europe/001. Whereas i do not think this would stop problems (if new paths would have to be introduced which can only be linked to one location that someone does not want to be linked), it would not be that apparent. And do not get me started on the ship-hating Britons either. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)