On 9 August 2013 14:44, Derick Rethans <tz@derickrethans.nl> wrote:
On Fri, 9 Aug 2013, David Patte ₯ wrote: However, I do agree with your concerns over things like this:
-HR +4548+01558 Europe/Zagreb +HR +4548+01558 Europe/Belgrade
I think this will give a *lot* of public outcry, with the other changes in the Balkans causing even more issues as suddenly people listing the zones for "HR" (Croatia) now will see the name of a Serbian city. This is *not* okay.
This is just plain wrong. Belgrade is not in Croatia. And it is naive to think that it would be remotely acceptable given recent history. I understand the desire to avoid politics, but time-zones are in their very essence political things. The politics cannot be avoided or sidestepped. (These may in theory "just" be IDs, but in practice they are used everywhere from developer code to UI. Pretending otherwise is naive and unhelpful). In addition, minimal change is *critical* for this data set. Its so widely used, that refactoring/tidying-up is simply not viable at this point. Please stop messing with the data and just focus on time changes. Thats all consumers of the data actually want. Stephen