London is on Berlin time?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 15:01 UTC (Fri) by mcopple (subscriber, #2920)
In reply to: London is on Berlin time? by NYKevin
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

"If you name the "region, state, province, etc." then you have to contend with countries that don't do that, or countries that do that differently. Localization becomes very complicated."

And that doesn't even count political sub-units that also have multiple timezones (e.g., Indiana, which has 18 or so counties in central time zone because they are part of the Chicago metro, and the rest in the eastern time zone -- I used to dread the daylight savings time change because we always had some complication).

London is on Berlin time?

Posted Oct 1, 2021 17:19 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

Which is why NAMING THE TIME ZONE (after the appropriate political entity), and then referring to it with a country/state/city combo link is so simple.

Name the time zone after the political entity responsible, then create as many country/state/city combos as the locals want/need, that link to the relevant time zones that apply to that area.

Most of this angst is becasue the time zone is being given a country/city designation which screws everybody except the cityzens of that city.

Cheers,
Wol