On Thu, Nov 3, 2016, at 13:56, Matt Johnson wrote:
nobody actually uses the data
Well, I use it. https://github.com/mj1856/TimeZoneNames
Others use it too and I've commented on the release cycle problems before, in issues like this one: https://github.com/nodatime/nodatime/issues/473
Oh, you meant something mainstream, well: http://site.icu-project.org/
Okay, "nobody" was a bit hyperbolic. My main issue was the fact that most OS's C libraries (which tend to follow tzdb's lead, except for Windows - which has its own timezones and its own localization) don't seem use it, and as far as I know Python's standard library (which doesn't exactly have its act together with timezones in general either) also doesn't. The fact that we're talking about your project and nodatime rather than the basic class libraries of either C# or Java suggests that the latter don't use the CLDR data, or possibly even the tzdb data at all. The fact that they _do_ tend to provide localization of, say, month names, means a lot of people might not realize that they're inadequate.