Understood. From the looks of it, state names are only used when the state itself doesn't adhere to a single timezone. North Dakota, Kentucky, Indiana, etc.
Thanks for the response, that's clear things up for me.
On 12/11/19 3:14 PM, Marc Sackeli wrote:
> If this is a potential outcome, is there an idea of how the tz database
> would adapt to this change? My guess is that new entries would be
> created to allow us to delineate between these states.
Right.
> We are currently
> covered if California decides to change thanks to America/Los_Angeles,
Not if the rest of the Pacific time zone decides not to change. In that
case, we'd need to create America/Seattle etc. We'd prefer city names to
state names, as that's the convention.