Brian Park said:
Are you ready to jump into the political quagmire that is "GB" versus "UK"? Something that people are - literally - ready to kill over.
The ISO code for the UK is listed as "GB". Not our fault. But I think what you are saying is, if Northern Ireland decides to have its own timezone, we can't do GB/Northern_Ireland, so we'd need to create a UK/Northern_Ireland (that will point to the Zone Europe/Belfast that will have to be created in the canonical TZDB) and that would be an exception.
Actually, I wasn't even going that far: there are plenty of people in Northern Ireland who would object to GB/London right now. Note that having "GB" on the back of your car is no longer valid for driving in other countries; you need to have "UK" instead. So all those with "GB" fixed in metal or with number plates that have GB in a ring of stars are now stuffed.
The question I have for people who have expressed support for creating a TZ database organized by ISO country, are the benefits worth the inevitable controversies that will arise?
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