According to my understanding, the tz id in the database are just the database key, they are not meant to be name for user to select, and software are supposed to do the mapping of the place where user select/locate being part of which time zone.


On 2024-11-22 Fri 23:50, Erik Geletti via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
So is not possible to have an official alias like Antarctica/McMurdo and Antarctica/DumontDUrville? In that way it will be easier to identify the time zone name on different softwares and interfaces. Is not nice to see Singapore when you are so distant from it...
Regards,

Erik

Il giorno mar 15 ott 2024 alle ore 08:25 Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> ha scritto:

It already has an identifier that can be used in Linux. The identifier is Asia/Singapore.

 

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From: Erik Geletti <egeletti@ogs.it>
Sent: Monday, October 14, 2024 1:41
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org>; Time zone mailing list <tz@iana.org>
Subject: Re: [tz] Re: New timezone Antarctica/Concordia (UTC+8)

 

Hi to all.

Thanks!
Will it also be added as Antarctica/Concordia? So it could be used in Linux, like Antarctica/DumontDUrville.

 

Erik

 

Il giorno mar 1 ott 2024 alle ore 05:28 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> ha scritto:

On 2024-09-30 16:50, Doug Ewell via tz wrote:
> So, basically, the same as Asia/Singapore since 1982.

Thanks for the suggestion; I installed the attached change to commentary.