That is incorrect. The metazone mechanism that you found in ICU comes from CLDR. For more about it (and timezone names), you can also look at the LDML spec. Mark <https://plus.google.com/114199149796022210033> * * *— Il meglio è l’inimico del bene —* ** On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 1:19 PM, Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
no, that's the data i told you Android uses several posts ago! those are localized names for the time zones. we're already all in agreement that that's a solved problem, solved by CLDR.
We are not in agreement on this point.
CLDR translates principal city names affiliated with timezones, and provides a mapping to Windows timezones. That is all.
(It doesn't define or translate timezone names, or allow for the grouping of historical timezones in to a reduced set of entitites suitable for presentation to end users.)
i was saying that the useful thing i'm missing is _city_ names. (not exemplar names, either. re-read my original mail.)
It's easy to find internationalised geoname data... one approach might be to look at language equivalence across the Wikipedia dataset, another OpenStreetmaps, etc.
- Walter