Since the subject is open, i personally have a huge issue with America/ being a primary timezone name. There is something jarring about 'America/Havana' or 'America/Toronto' or 'America/Caracas'. One has to admit that many people in the western hemisphere find it insulting that their cities are listed in 'America', considering how that handle has generally be co-opted by the USA. There are already too many zones in 'America' anyway, making the average person totally confused by the choice of 'America' as a primary group. A very clean solution fits into this discussion. I'd personally like to see America split into 'North_America', 'South_America' and 'Atlantic'. On 2012-05-11 23:12, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 05/11/2012 07:19 PM, Tobias Conradi wrote:
- to create a file "indian"
We haven't created a file like that since 1988 (when we added "africa" and "antarctica"). If we add "indian" then for consistency we should also create "atlantic" and "pacific" and "arctic" as well, and move a lot of stuff around, to be consistent, with lots of fun decisions to make about borderline cases. It's not clear that such a reorganization would overall be a win; these days, it might even make more sense to have one big text file than several little ones, if only to avoid arguments over how many files there should be and which entries should be in which file.
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