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You might be interested in reading more about the development of "Railroad Time" in the US: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_time#Railroad_time https://en.wi

• contingencies 13y ago
  Interesting. After living for most of a decade in China I've often thought about the very (bureaucratically-)pragmatic decision made by the Communist Party to normalize the timezone across the entire country. Of course, it wouldn't happen today, but now it's a feature of the country and is unlikely to change. For a great deal more evolutionary temporal trivia see the tz database mailing list; along with many others tasked with implementation, late last year I realised its seeming antiquity of scope and form, but this is being ignored. https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018297.html https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2012-October/018297.html
  • dfc 13y ago
    You are still not convinced that what you are suggesting is: http://cldr.unicode.org/ http://cldr.unicode.org/ ?
    • contingencies 13y ago
      Err, if you read the thread, CLDR is a reasonable but different, bloated and hacky library maintained by a completely different body, providing only subset of the intended functionality ... and a whole lot of other stuff.