Oct. 11, 2015
6:57 p.m.
Guy Harris wrote:
Would it be at all useful for the tzdb to itself maintain the notion of metazones, perhaps giving a metazone name as an additional component of a Zone line?
Yes, that sounds useful to me. Any change to the tzdata format is problematic of course, but if we're going to change it we might as well make things easier for translators. There was a proposal a while ago to have Zone lines be chainable (e.g., Europe/Paris could say "we're just like Europe/Berlin from 1940-06-14 23:00 to 1944-08-25 00:00"), and metazones could be part of that chaining process somehow.