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The tz database in itself is a massive project, that only somewhat recently (2011) started being backed by an organization (ICANN, which is not completely uncon
by kalleboo 6y ago
The tz database in itself is a massive project, that only somewhat recently (2011) started being backed by an organization (ICANN, which is not completely uncontroversial), and when ISO 8601 was created, it was still in its infancy. Additionally creating a timezone database from scratch was probably outside the scope of ISO 8601.