Dec. 1, 2016
9:53 p.m.
<<On Thu, 1 Dec 2016 13:46:39 -0800, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> said:
On 12/01/2016 01:30 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
It would have been nice if there had been some form of ID that we could have used for tzdb zones that*didn't* involve city names
How about SHA-256 checksums? Instead of "Europe/Kiev" the zone name would be "099d2adb7f9a187c25224cd49364de6d510d6e89924584c0b97d88d3f801e551", which would make users less likely to raise political objections.
A stable identifier is what's needed. What would that be the SHA-256 of? If it's a hash of the data, then you no longer have a stable identifier. -GAWollman