On Sun, 20 Jul 2014, Alan Barrett wrote:
On Fri, 18 Jul 2014, Paul Eggert wrote:
New file time.tab, superseding zone.tab It allows multiple country codes per zone.
I worry that entries with a single latitude/longitude point intended to refer to multiple countries, will cause trouble in selecting a time zone by latitude/longitude, especially where the user's location is far from the location chosen to represent the time zone.
Here are some of the entries that I am referring to:
+MZ,BI,BW,CD,MW,RW,ZM,ZW -2558+03235 Africa/Maputo Central Africa Time (UTC+2) +RS,BA,HR,ME,MK,SI +4450+02030 Europe/Belgrade +TT,AG,AI,BL,DM,GD,GP,MF,LC,KN,MS,VC,VG,VI +1039-06131 America/Port_of_Spain
What worries me more about this is that names like "Belgrade" are now used for Croatia and Slovenia. I thought we had come to a conclusion (quite some time ago) as to *not* mess with timezone IDs and replace them by links? I will say again that I am very much against messing with links and IDs, and much more for "keeping things as they are". Stability is very important, and I can assure you that these changes will result in me (as PHP Date/Time maintainer) getting flak for this; just like Stephen (cc-ed) will for the java variant of this. cheers, Derick