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That is very promising! But as timezones change, we need place names, not timezone names.
by kuon 3y ago
That is very promising! But as timezones change, we need place names, not timezone names.
- WorldMaker 3y agoThe IANA timezone database uses place names (mostly city names) for that reason. "Europe/Paris" in that example I gave is very not "Central European Summer Time" (or "CEST"), Paris' current timezone name. The IANA's timezone database tracks key cities and especially ones with historically unique timezones or that have shifted between timezones. It certainly doesn't list all places, but it lists most of the key ones that have carried weight on timezones, and is about the best database a lot of internet nerds have managed to accumulate of a lot of the complexity of current (and historic) timezones by roughly place name.