Well, BCP 47 just updated to the new country codes. Following that, we have just updated Unicode CLDR for them, and now we are missing a mapping from country codes to timezone for the new country codes. That mapping is used in a number of places, including the localizations, so it is not a trivial lack. CLDR's going out at the end of this month ( 1.5.1), and is used in ICU (among other places), which is going out in December (3.8.1), and my company (Google) uses ICU and would upgrade thereafter. So it's kind of a domino effect.

Thus we'd appreciate adding the new country codes so that everything's in sync.

Mark

On Nov 13, 2007 12:32 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
"Mark Davis" <mark.davis@icu-project.org> writes:

> It would be very helpful for us if we could get a release quickly that added
> these to zone.tab (with new IDs and Links). Any possibility of that?

Hmm, OK, what's the rush?  This doesn't affect any time zone data per
se; it's just auxiliary info.  (Are the 7000 people of St Barthelemy
bombarding us with email, demanding that they not be forced to set
TZ='America/Guadeloupe'?  :-)

> For the IDs, I'd suggest either Saint_Barthelemy or Gustavia for the first,
> and either Saint_Martin or Marigot for the second.

I have been leaning towards America/St_Barthelemy and America/Marigot,
for reasons discussed earlier on this list.

> These country codes were split off from Guadeloupe, and so had the same
> timezone rules. So they can be initially Linked to Guadeloupe.

Yes, that makes sense.





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Mark