On Jun 17, 2011, at 10:07 AM, Philip Newton wrote:
On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 22:03, Paul Koning <paul_koning@dell.com> wrote:
timezone rules are political constructs. So they are associated with countries, not cities (to the extent that cities != countries).
They are? What is the timezone associated with the United States?
I didn't say there is just one.
Timezones are associated with (politico-)geographical regions, which may be smaller than a country. (In theory, I suppose they could also be bigger than a country, but that sort of mutual agreement is not necessarily stable.)
That's my point. Countries, or their subdivisions, are political constructs. The claim was made that cities were preferred for zone names precisely because they are *not* political constructs, and I was pointing out that this may be true but would actually be an argument against city names. paul