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

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Philip Paeps
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Ministry of Information