On 2018-01-25 06:00, Lester Caine wrote:
On 25/01/18 02:48, Yoshito Umaoka wrote:
CLDR does not have time zone names for dates before 1990. Historic zone names never used in a last few decades are not included. This is mainly because reducing overhead of managing localized names. Our primary focus is to provide good localized display names in modern software, not trying to provide every possible names historically used.
Which is only exacerbating the problem ... if CLDR is unable to support pre 1990 dates properly then we do need another service that can cope! Genealogical data and history in general can't simply be swept under the carpet ... TZ while not promoting pre 1970 data does at least have it available. Now I know CLDR does not support historic material I can make sure I avoid using it at all!
CLDR does not do data, only names, and like recent tzdb reversals on support of invented abbreviations, if CLDR can not provide a name, it provides a UTC offset string. -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada