Removing locale timezone information
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Wed Jun 3 17:37:00 GMT 2015
Marko Myllynen wrote:
> I propose that, in the name of consistency, we
> remove the existing timezone definitions from the shipped locale files
> but leave the actual code still available
Sounds reasonable to me.
I don't know of anybody using the glibc version of this data. The existing
entries duplicate a small part of tzdata, except for two points of disagreement
where I'd guess they're less correct than tzdata. First, the UA abbreviations
"з.ч." and "л.ч." are simply Ukrainian abbreviations for "Зимовий час" and
"Літній час", which is not right, as it's supposed to be a time zone
abbreviation, not an ST/DST abbreviation. Second, the TW abbreviation "TST" is
unusual in Taiwan -- though "Taiwan Standard Time" has been used, the most
common Latin-alphabet abbreviation is probably "CST" (there are some complicated
politics going on here, for obvious reasons -- among other things there doesn't
seem to be any offical published name or abbreviation for the time zone in
Taiwan because the politics of choosing a name are too tricky).
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