On Fri, May 3, 2013, at 13:05, Guy Harris wrote:
On May 3, 2013, at 9:49 AM, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
I've been sitting on an idea for a proposal to extend the format, actually, to support localized timezone names and/or keys for looking up such localized information in a database such as CLDR.
Keys such as, say, "metazone names"?
If we could indicate what metazone a time zone is in for a given date/time range, that might let the CLDR not keep its own list of moves of time zones between metazones (see common/supplemental/metaZones.xml in the CLDR).
I'd personally prefer that the tz database *not* provide localized time zone names;
I do agree that CLDR should be who actually maintains the names, but I do think tzcode should provide reference code for _using_ them from C, possibly including a tool to convert them to a non-XML format (which should probably be packaged in CLDR's tools, rather than in tzcode - this might need some coordination between the two projects) Likely the metazone name would live inside the tz file, and the localized names would exist outside of it.