Guy Harris wrote in <49DEEDEF-3BA0-4E1C-BFB1-AA372A93F0FD@sonic.net>: |On Dec 2, 2022, at 7:36 PM, Guy Harris via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote: ... |(Yes, tzdb regions can move from one metazone to another.) | |So we could, in principle: ... I would like to also point to UN Locode mappings. On a different list many of the readers are also on i said about three weeks ago: UN Locode support should possibly be supported or reserved as trade will continue to be the thing, i would suggest via leading @ plus the five letters which makes up a Locode entry. I would presume these Locode IDs become known more and more in the future. [.]IANA TZ over and over discusses the syntax and content of the Area/Location IDs as such, and whereas i would assume backward-compatibility will not be lost, i could imagine a new maintainer (the current one is on the austin ML and reads this, sufficient time provided) switches to a new format that serves ISO 3166 country codes much better, and ISO 3166 country codes are the base (root level) of UN Locodes. --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)