Re: [tz] Terminology: “Central European Summer Time” vs “Europe/Berlin”

On 4/13/21 11:52 AM, Guy Harris via tz wrote:

Perhaps the tzdb*should* maintain a notion of "metazones", giving them names; it would leave it up to the CLDR to assign localized abbreviations and display names for them.

We could maintain an English-language table mapping time zone abbreviations to time zone display names, e.g.: CEST Central European Summer Time CET Central European Time CST Central Standard Time CST China Standard Time ... Unfortunately, resolving ambiguities (as in CST above) would be needed if such a table is to be useful, and this would require something more complicated and messy. Not sure it's worth the effort if CLDR already has a solution for this.