Guy, Paul, Thanks for the follow ups. I've read the doc that Guy sent over and it helped put things into context, especially the directory usage. On 12/11/19 3:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
We will be in trouble if the state of New York splits, since America/New_York cannot be a directory name. That is a tricky scenario. Thankfully that type of naming overlap seems like an outlier. I'd like to think we are OK there given New York's position within EST.
On a side note, how are you both extracting and formatting my quotes so nicely in your replies? I manually made mine to match your format. Best, Marc On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 3:37 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 12/11/19 3:30 PM, Marc Sackeli wrote:
From the looks of it, state names are only used when the state itself doesn't adhere to a single timezone.
Yes, but that's for directory names, e.g., America/Indiana/Petersburg; there is no America/Indiana zone. This is more to handle ambiguity/obscurity.
We will be in trouble if the state of New York splits, since America/New_York cannot be a directory name.