On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 3:28 PM Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
Brian Park via tz said:
4) So maybe the solution is to use 2-letter or 3-letter ISO codes, instead of the shortened, quasi-English versions of the country names. So we get things like "CA/Eastern" or "CAN/Eastern", instead of "Canada/Eastern". Not very satisfying for Canadians or many other countries (except for Americans whose ISO codes "US" and "USA" match their colloquial usage perfectly).
Are you ready to jump into the political quagmire that is "GB" versus "UK"? Something that people are - literally - ready to kill over.
The ISO code for the UK is listed as "GB". Not our fault. But I think what you are saying is, if Northern Ireland decides to have its own timezone, we can't do GB/Northern_Ireland, so we'd need to create a UK/Northern_Ireland (that will point to the Zone Europe/Belfast that will have to be created in the canonical TZDB) and that would be an exception. I guess anything that describes the real world will have exceptions like this. The question I have for people who have expressed support for creating a TZ database organized by ISO country, are the benefits worth the inevitable controversies that will arise? If so, then we should create a new project and work out the details. Brian