March 5, 2013
7:07 a.m.
On Mon, 04 Mar 2013, Paul Eggert wrote:
That discussion seems to be predicated on the assumption that tz zone names can and do "disappear", but they don't. For example, we renamed Asia/Calcutta to Asia/Kolkata, but kept the old name as an alias for the new one.
Have any tz id's ever disappeared in the past? Even if they have, perhaps the tz project could guarantee that none will disappear in the future. --apb (Alan Barrett)