Steve Allen wrote in <20190226221745.GA19009@ucolick.org>: |On Tue 2019-02-26T20:00:54+0000 Paul.Koning@dell.com hath writ: |> Once in a while it is suggested that all tzdb zones should be |> identified by random unique integers, or something like that. I'm |> more and more inclined to think that's a good idea, because it would |> once and for all shut down this confusion. | |This seems to be a proposal to |1) Move the arguments to be Somebody Else's Problem, somewhere else. I had a message with almost the same content as what papa Koning said, but did not send it, last Saturday i think it was. Paul Eggert gave a really explosive example, and many others possibly exist (you will always find someone who is pissed by something, but this is .. land). I did not send it because i could not imagine something better. I think Paul Eggert himself imagined numeric identifiers. Then tzselect would say "zone 000105 has been chosen for you". Well. It is also harder for the maintainer i guess. Europe/00105 maybe. Maybe tzselect could simply dump the last five rules for the chosen one, instead of saying something else. |2) Break a lot of existing interfaces to achieve that goal. | |I cannot begin to calculate the cost of 2) but given the number of |downstream interfaces which use tzdb it seems likely larger than the |cost of tolerating the discussions on this list. Then again from America noises spread the world which made me frightened when thinking where my hands have been when i was a teenager! (Not to talk about my more adult hands.) --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)