June 14, 2004
1:33 p.m.
On Jun 13, 2004, at 9:22 PM, Mark Davis wrote:
I must not be making the situation clear. The internal code is invariant across locales. But the "display name" for that code will change dramatically. That is, the TZID will not change. But its representation to local users must; because they may not know English. For example, "Europe/London" will remain constant.
I would not describe that as "localizing the Olson TZIDs"; I'd describe it as "localizing the names corresponding to the regions for given Olson TZIDs" or "localizing the names for the types of time (e.g., "British Summer Time") for given Olson TZIDs". I.e., you do not localize the term "Asia/Singapore". You localize the term "Singapore Time".