On 2021-09-29 13:35, Guy Harris wrote:
On Sep 29, 2021, at 1:22 PM, Aurelien Jarno via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
The zone1970.tab says: "This table is intended as an aid for users, to help them select timezones appropriate for their practical needs". I have the impression that the coordinates in that table do not anymore aid users to select appropriate timezones,
Did they ever do so? The coordinates for the tzdb region in which I live point to a random location on 1st street in Los Angeles, which is over 400 km from where I live, and is far from where the vast majority of people in the America/Los_Angeles region live. (It's not all that near where many people in the *Los Angeles metropolitan area* live.)
If you consider a world map to select the timezone, with each timezone represented by a circle from the coordinates in the zone1970.tab, you will find the America/Los_Angeles close to where you live, and it would be natural to select it. We are talking of 400km at the scale of a world map. In the example I gave, we are talking about more than 10000 km from South to North, roughly half of the map. I am not sure users will have the idea to look so far for their timezone. -- Aurelien Jarno GPG: 4096R/1DDD8C9B aurelien@aurel32.net http://www.aurel32.net