On Tue, May 21, 2013, at 0:14, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 05/20/2013 06:42 PM, Random832 wrote:
So how is tzselect going to work?
tzselect will still work. It will skip the part where it asks "Please select a country". So its menu will get shallower and bushier.
The code to skip "Please select a country" is already in tzselect, and has been for many years.
The current code only skips the question if it _only has one possible answer_ - a code path that I don't think even ever gets exercised now.
If zone.tab's column 1 is changed to be a comment, we can simplify tzselect to automatically skip the question rather than to calculate whether the question can be skipped.
The descriptions in column 4 are not adequate, without a country, to select a time zone. You would basically have to add the country to it. I don't see why you're going for this nuclear option when the issue could have been resolved simply by replacing Asia/Jerusalem with Asia/Tel_Aviv in zone.tab with _no_ data changes (and for heaven's sake, nobody was arguing about Taiwan... except the anti-change people using it to draw a false equivalency).