Oct. 9, 2023
8:40 p.m.
On Oct 9, 2023, at 1:27 PM, Clive D.W. Feather via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
Maria Mkrtichiani via tz said:
We find out that our e-commerce platform uses the information about regions from IANA. There is Asia/Tbilisi, it should be Georgia/Tbilisi. Can you please change it?
Good evening, Maria,
In the IANA database, time zones are normally named by continent followed by a city, not by a country. So, for example, my time zone is Europe/London, not UK/London. So "Asia" is correct.
In particular, this means that the IANA time zone database entry names are *not* an appropriate data source to determine the country in which a city resides. If your e-commerce platform is doing that, it needs to be fixed to use a better source for that information.