Markus Kuhn wrote:
Interesting example. Is ``:Paris'' "Paris, France", or "Paris, Texas", or perhaps one of the other half-dozen or so cities named Paris?
If I had to design proper tz names from scratch, they might look more like
fr.paris us.tx.paris
You will need to include 3166-2 notation as well for Paris, eg. "fr.75.Paris", since there are at least 4 places in Metropolitan France with such a name (add fr.71.Paris_l'Hopital, fr.26.Petit_Paris, fr.62.Paris_Plage). Of course, one is somewhat bigger that the others. So I had to cheat to get the names, because my system cleverly answers me only the first when I was asking about this list... So, this is just to say that ":Paris", like ":Los_Angeles", should be unambiguous enough when speaking about *world* time zones, unless a small city lost in the fields far from the capital in a big country choose to have its proper history of time, and it this city happens to be named Paris... Antoine