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Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information


On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:47:01AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 08/06/2015 07:30 AM, keld@keldix.com wrote:
> >Still, if you order the timezones for a country in some way, eg order of 
> >population,
> >or alphabetically, you could probably find a solution that is useful to 
> >most
> >people.
> 
> This is already done, by applications outside glibc.  For example, the 
> tzselect program (part of of the tzcode distribution) lets you list 
> tzdata names alphabetically, or in order of distance from your location, 
> or geographically.  Other commonly-used time zone selectors do something 
> fancier, e.g., based on <http://efele.net/maps/tz> shapefiles.  None of 
> these selectors are based on the recently-removed glibc locale 
> information, or would benefit from reverting the removal.

Given that the data is not present in current locales, I understand this.
But with good data in the locales, that would be another matter.

best regards
keld


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