On Dec 12, 2024, at 9:27 AM, Dale Ghent via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
All this foo about DST in the US
Foo about DST in the US back in the 1980s was the original provocation for creating the tzdb in the first place. But the goal was more than "yet another tweak", so they ended up creating something that did a far better job of handling *multiple* locales than "have some rules compiled into the code", which was what UN*Xes had at the time.
So this leads me to wonder if our single-dimension timezones, roughly organized along a mishmash of longitude and political boundaries, should contain a second dimension that follows latitudes.
"Our" presumably referring to the organizations that draw those more-or-less vertical lines on the map, not to the maintainers of the tzdb, whose zones don't align up longitudinally.