The strategy used since tz was created has caused many political arguments and decisions in this group instead of deferring the decisions to the ISO that has this mandate.



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-------- Original message --------
From: Eliot Lear via tz <tz@iana.org>
Date: 2021-09-21 16:17 (GMT-05:00)
To: "Clive D.W. Feather" <clive@davros.org>, Watson Ladd <watson@cloudflare.com>
Cc: tz <tz@iana.org>
Subject: Re: [tz] Preparing to fork tzdb

And who gets to decide?  The strategy used over the entire existence of
this database has obviated the need to answer that question.

Eliot

On 21.09.21 22:07, Clive D.W. Feather via tz wrote:
> Watson Ladd via tz said:
>> If what we want is one time zone per country, let's have that
>> conversation instead of having it happen by accident as a side effect
>> of rules that don't mention countries.
> I agree.
>
> But, if we want to talk about countries, what would surely be more useful
> is a list, for each country, of all the time zones that are at least
> partially in that country.
>
> Oh, please define "country". Is England a country? Wales? The Netherlands
> (as opposed to the Kingdom of the Netherlands)? Sealand? Taiwan? Macau?
> Bir Tawil? Liberland?
>
> Do you really want to open this can of worms?
>