Oct. 13, 2012
1:43 a.m.
On Oct 12, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Tony Finch wrote:
Walter <walter.stanish@gmail.com> wrote:
- The much referenced issue of 1.4 billion+ people on Beijing time being semantically mismatched to their timezone entry, which for lack of meaningful alternative timezone identification strings winds up getting displayed to users. - The need for a shared database of decent multilingual timezone names and descriptions. - The problem of how to display a timezone to the user that is detected via zone.tab and GeoIP, or similar methods.
Aren't these requirements addressed by the Unicode common locale data repository? http://cldr.unicode.org/
Tony.
I believe so, though the data is not that easy to find. Cross-references might be helpful. paul