Re: [tz] On merging timezones - a radical proposal.

I second (or third, or whatever the number may be) this On May 22, 2013, at 20:35, John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu> wrote:

We may like to pretend the tz database doesn't contain political information, but it simply is not so.

We may like to think users don't use TZ idenfiers, but it simply isn't so.

Forcing users who are happy with their current identifiers to use other ones (or making the ones they are currently using non-canonical) will simply annoying people and create a lot of stress.

I think we are best served with the status quo.