Sept. 26, 2010
11:21 p.m.
On Sep 26, 2010, at 9:18 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
At the back of your request I detect misunderstanding of what the tz database labels are supposed to be. They are not supposed to be official names for anything, or to reflect common names for time zone regions.
...and there is no requirement that a user interface for selecting a time zone use the TZ database label as a name; the only UI that would require that is the "UN*X environment variable, as set (by running zic -l, by editing some environment-variable-setting script)", because the TZ environment variable is set to a database label. A GUI for selecting a time zone can offer the user any names it wants for the choices.