Oct. 17, 2014
1:11 p.m.
On Fri, Oct 17, 2014, at 05:41, Mark Davis ☕️ wrote:
Some alias relations are vastly different than others. The distinction between Asia/Calcutta and Asia/Kolkata does not matter for the purposes of localized names; they really identify the same place. So we need to map them together for the purpose of getting localized names.
What is a "localized name"? The timezone identifiers aren't meant to be human-readable; you should be localizing the descriptions in zone{1970,}.tab. And even disregarding this... no, you don't, you can just localize them both to the same thing. There aren't _that_ many timezones. Or maintain your own unification table independent of aliases.