Then again I would suggest putting relevant info in the readme or such instead of theory for visibility purpose. 在 2018年10月5日週五 04:00，Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> 寫道：
On 10/4/18 7:33 AM, Michael Douglass wrote:
Opaque ids are what some consumers have been asking for for some time because of the political implications of the names.
I would rather not change the zone names currently used in tzdb source files, as the change would be a hassle for both maintainers and users, and the existing names simplify maintenance since they are easier to read than opaque IDs would be.
Although we could add an auxiliary table that maps existing names to short, stable, and reasonably opaque identifiers, CLDR is already maintaining such a table and it'd be confusing if we attempted to duplicate that work; plus, such a table would not be useful to tzcode so it wouldn't be tested well by us. For now, we are probably better off improving the already-existing suggestion to use CLDR facilities for consumers worried about politics. Proposed patch attached.