That would be nice, but most open source software projects and developers do not have the spare time and manpower to implement a gazetteer interface, such as provided by commercial systems and packages, or via OpenStreetMap API, to look up a location and get a tz id. So for example, Mozilla Thunderbird's Lightning calendar/event scheduler component still just shows the zone tz id paths for selection. At least on many distros, you should be able to run tzselect if they provide it in a package, and perhaps make that package part of the default install set, to select yourself a suitable tzid using geographic coordinates, or successive continent/ocean, country, region selections. Of course, how you get from such selections about Antarctica to Signapore may be problematic, except by reading the comments in the antarctica tz data file. On 2024-11-22 23:22, Phake Nick via tz wrote:
According to my understanding, the tz id in the database are just the database key, they are not meant to be name for user to select, and software are supposed to do the mapping of the place where user select/locate being part of which time zone.
On 2024-11-22 Fri 23:50, Erik Geletti via tz <tz@iana.org <mailto:tz@iana.org>> wrote:
So is not possible to have an official alias like Antarctica/McMurdo and Antarctica/DumontDUrville? In that way it will be easier to identify the time zone name on different softwares and interfaces. Is not nice to see Singapore when you are so distant from it...
Il giorno mar 15 ott 2024 alle ore 08:25 Doug Ewell ha scritto: It already has an identifier that can be used in Linux. The identifier is Asia/Singapore.
On Monday, October 14, 2024 1:41, Erik Geletti wrote: Thanks! Will it also be added as Antarctica/Concordia? So it could be used in Linux, like Antarctica/DumontDUrville.
Il giorno mar 1 ott 2024 alle ore 05:28 Paul Eggert ha scritto: On 2024-09-30 16:50, Doug Ewell via tz wrote:
So, basically, the same as Asia/Singapore since 1982.
Thanks for the suggestion; I installed the attached change to commentary.
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