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tz name? Sounds super brittle to me when looking at history. So what happens when a timezone name changes? Say Manila timezone changes names to New Beijing ti
by bboygravity 3y ago
tz name? Sounds super brittle to me when looking at history.
So what happens when a timezone name changes?
Say Manila timezone changes names to New Beijing timezone in the next 10 years (fictive example)?
- brongondwana 3y agoIf the timezone name changes, chances are I no longer want to meet at 6pm in London in 10 years' time without double-checking a few things.
- trifurcate 3y agoHonestly, this applies to the entire rest of the thread too.
- kevincox 3y agoNo? If the UK decides to stop doing DST or synchronize when they do DST with North America I still want to have my meeting at 6pm local time. Not have that meeting be 5pm or 7pm for some reason.
- TheDong 3y agotzdata does not remove timezone names. If the 'Asia/Manila' timezone changes to the 'Asia/Shanghai' timezone, the old timezone will still exist, but a rule will be added to indicate the change. The tz name here is a specific name in the tzdata database, so it's quite easy for that database to never remove any entries, but to rather deprecate them or link them to new ones, if appropriate.
- bboygravity 3y agoYes and then you'll have old source code that still uses the old names to indicate time-zones and newer source code that refers to all the newest names of time-zones.