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On Fri, Oct 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:

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"?

A name that is localized to a given language. I gave the example of the Russian

Калькутта

The timezone identifiers aren't meant to be
human-readable;

Yes, that's what I said, if you read it.

you should be localizing the descriptions in
zone{1970,}.tab.

No, for the reasons I gave. Again, it doesn't look like you read completely through what I wrote.

And even disregarding this... no, you don't, you can just localize them
both to the same thing.

Too many missing referents in your sentence to make sense of it.

There aren't _that_ many timezones. Or maintain
your own unification table independent of aliases.

Again, that's what we do do.