Nov. 29, 2006
7:46 p.m.
<<On Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:38:01 -0800, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> said:
There's a nonzero cost to switching. Existing software reads zone.tab and iso3166.tab and expects these files to have a certain format. To switch, we need a compelling technical reason. So far, I haven't seen one.
Perhaps more to the point, existing software reads zone.tab and uses its own table of ISO 3166-1 codes, and expects zone.tab to have a certain format. -GAWollman