Aug. 29, 2013
12:41 a.m.
Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org> writes:
Some systems will automatically map the old "backward" forms of IDs to the "correct" new forms. Thus users will see their Atikokan replaced by Panama, something which is clearly ridiculous.
How would they even do it? They will keep seeing two different zones that happen to have the same content (and are actually hard-links of each other). The user will still see either "CA: Eastern Standard Time - Atikokan, Ontario and Southampton I, Nunavut", or "PA", depending on whether their zone is set to America/Atikokan, or America/Panama. Thanks, PM