On 22/07/15 10:26, Guy Harris wrote:
It's even *better* if time zone selectors stopped turning the list of tzdb identifiers into a list of cities to offer to the user or, even worse, just offering the tzdb identifiers directly as choices to users.
Distributions take the easy route, which is perhaps one reason that the base identifiers should be a reasonable fall back solution, but in practice the lookup for timezone based on location still needs a reliable source. geonames does provide a fairly accurate return on current tzid for a location, but it's not the sort of thing that would be built into a distribution. I have to admit to taking the easy option myself, but a more powerful lookup package does have a place in these more global times? That is not something that TZ is tasked to supply though. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk