On 19.02.19 20:59, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 2/19/19 11:14 AM, Hans-Joerg Happel wrote:
I'd perhaps first suggest to talk about "Identifiers of timezones" instead of "Names of timezones".
We can emphasize the "identifier" stuff a bit more, as in the attached proposed patch. I'm leery of globally replacing "name" with "identifier" though, as "name" is shorter and makes the text easier to follow.
A second suggestion would be a short note that it is these identifiers which would be typically stored in database / system configuration / appointment in order to denote the time zone of a "thing" and that software will typically pick up the additional rule data in tzdb in order to compute meaningful things based on these identifiers. This is sort of implicit to the given text, but might be pointed out more explicitly.
While this may be common practice, I'm not sure we should recommend it as it's fragile in the presence of timezone splits. The proposed patch attempts to add a warning along these lines.
Thanks, both changes look good to me. Minor note: one might also want to align the URL label in the first bullet of https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#stability Best, Hans-Joerg -- audriga GmbH Durlacher Allee 47 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany Tel: +49 (0) 721 17029 316 Fax: +49 (0) 721 17029 3179 www.twitter.com/audriga <http://www.twitter.com/audriga> www.audriga.com <http://www.audriga.com/> Handelsregister: Amtsgericht Mannheim - HRB 713034 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Karlsruhe Geschäftsführer: Dr. Frank Dengler, Dr. Hans-Jörg Happel USt-ID: DE 279724142