Oct. 4, 2018
9:03 a.m.
How about including a warning in the README file? Currently info on zone name are written in theory file however I don't think many programmers look into that when using tzdb 2018-10-4 14:58, Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote:
On 2018-10-04 08:45:03 (+0200), Paw Boel Nielsen via tz wrote:
it is not a good user interface. I propose we change all tz identifiers to randomly generated characters to ensure no UI designer considers showing them to end users.
This has been proposed several times.
The main downside to that idea is that it would make the tzdb a lot more difficult to maintain.
Philip
-- Philip Paeps Senior Reality Engineer Ministry of Information