On 10/12/2012 04:19 PM, Walter wrote:
CLDR translates principal city names affiliated with timezones, and provides a mapping to Windows timezones. That is all.
(It doesn't define or translate timezone names, or allow for the grouping of historical timezones in to a reduced set of entitites suitable for presentation to end users.) It actually does both - it defines an entity called a "metazone" that is for example "America_Eastern", provides mappings (both present _and_ historical) of all the various Olson zones that map to it (for example, America/New_York and America/Indianapolis), and each language file may contain translations for the name of it (for example, es.xml has an entry with <generic>Hora oriental</generic><standard>Hora estándar oriental</standard><daylight>Hora de verano oriental</daylight>). I don't know how you came to believe that it contained none of these things.