[tz] Re: Request to delay America/Vancouver tm_isdst transition until November

On 2026-03-09 15:32, Chris Walton via tz wrote:

I believe that the populace will ultimately use whatever time zone names Microsoft, TZ-DB, and CLDR decide to publish. This ascribes more power to Microsoft et al than they have, or at least should have. TZDB, at least, tries to follow a different approach, which describes rather than specifies how people and their clocks behave.

If Microsoft, TZ-DB, and/or CLDR choose to publish conflicting or ambiguous names for the sake of trying to follow the letter of the law

TZDB's goal is to describe what people do, and legislation is often a good way to figure that out. It is obviously not the only way. However, when there is disagreement it's often a reasonable tiebreaker.