On 01/26/2018 10:56 AM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
This merely replaces correct text with incorrect text.
No it doesn't. The proposed text is not incorrect. It's merely more generic; enough to get us through a transition.
Why should the citizens of Ireland have worse textual zone names than everyone else It's not worse than everyone else. Lots of zones in CLDR have worse textual zone names, e.g., "Cook Islands Half Summer Time" (I mean, c'mon). Admittedly the proposal is a compromise and like any compromise there is something for everyone to dislike about it: but it is a way forward to more-accurate names in the future. Some sort of compromise is helpful because OpenJDK+CLDR cannot gracefully handle a transition to an environment where "Irish Standard Time" is standard time. The idea is to ease the transition by temporarily using names that are still accurate albeit more-generic. Users by and large won't notice or care about any temporary glitches, just as they by and large didn't notice or care when CLDR used the incorrect text "Irish Summer Time" for IST.