On 2021-09-22 06:32:58 (+0800), dpatte via tz wrote:
Ezactly, which is why tz must use iso countries in its specification.Anything less than accepting iso countries, and continuing to use tz countries is nothing but a tz attempt to apply it's own political decisions on others.Iso has that mandate, not tz. tzdb will continue to be easier to maintainand use if it focuses on timekeeping, not politics.
tzdb regions refer to areas where people agree what time it is (or was). Whether or not those people agree on what country they are in is (or should be) no concern of the tzdb. Having an ISO two-letter code assigned (or not) does not confer any kind of consensus that a named region is a country (or not). Moreover, ISO takes no position on the boundaries of the regions assigned two-letter codes. Finding consensus on a mapping between countries and time zones is axiomatically impossible since no consensus exists on what countries even are. Philip -- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Alternative Enterprises