London is on Berlin time?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 6:59 UTC (Fri) by NYKevin (subscriber, #129325)
In reply to: London is on Berlin time? by nybble41
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

You cannot realistically expect a small island nation in the Pacific, whose primary economic activity is fishing, to run and maintain such a server, unless they derive some real (monetary) benefit from doing so. The same applies to many other countries throughout the world.

Also, anybody can register a domain name. You have to have a more selective set of criteria than that. If you go by "does it have a ccTLD?" then you're right back to ISO country codes, but now they're wearing a funny hat.

London is on Berlin time?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 15:32 UTC (Fri) by nybble41 (subscriber, #55106) [Link] (1 responses)

> You cannot realistically expect a small island nation in the Pacific, whose primary economic activity is fishing, to run and maintain such a server…

If they can afford to publish rules about their time zone then they can afford a few dollars a month for a domain name and some shared hosting capacity.

> Also, anybody can register a domain name.

Sure, and that's kind of the point. There should be some notability threshold for pulling the data into the collated time-zone database, just as a spam prevention measure, but I see no reason whatsoever to impose any further limits on who can publish time-zone information. If there are real people following the time zones some organization publishes then that organization's zones should be listed.

London is on Berlin time?

Posted Oct 10, 2021 0:40 UTC (Sun) by flussence (guest, #85566) [Link]

A lot of island nations are making bank off of selling vanity domains, so money isn't an object. The bigger problem is that they often outsource management of the ccTLD to not-quite-upstanding third parties on the other side of the world. Putting timezones into the same system isn't such a good idea in that case.