A fork for the time-zone database?
A fork for the time-zone database?
Posted Oct 10, 2021 16:49 UTC (Sun) by ssmith32 (subscriber, #72404)In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by mattdm
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?
Posted Oct 10, 2021 16:59 UTC (Sun)
by amacater (subscriber, #790)
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Posted Oct 11, 2021 9:07 UTC (Mon)
by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
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The best interface is almost certainly based on geolocation (privacy risk!). Basically just identify where you are, and offer a list sorted by probability that it's your timezone based on your location. This is not a simple solution, mind.
Posted Oct 11, 2021 14:42 UTC (Mon)
by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
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Both lists and maps have serious shortcomings, but not to the same set of people. Thus you offer both, done.
Posted Oct 11, 2021 17:01 UTC (Mon)
by excors (subscriber, #95769)
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It's still a problem if you omit the country names but show the borders: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030822-00/?p...
> In early 1995, a border war broke out between Peru and Ecuador and the Peruvian government complained to Microsoft that the border was incorrectly placed. Of course, if we complied and moved the border northward, we’d get an equally angry letter from the Ecuadorian government demanding that we move it back. So we removed the feature altogether.
(And if you don't even show borders then it'll probably be very hard for most people to locate themselves on the map.)
A fork for the time-zone database?
interace is probably a list.
A fork for the time-zone database?
A fork for the time-zone database?
A fork for the time-zone database?
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> The time zone map met a similar fate. The Indian government threatened to ban all Microsoft software from the country because we assigned a disputed region to Pakistan in the time zone map. (Any map that depicts an unfavorable border must bear a government stamp warning the end-user that the borders are incorrect. You can’t stamp software.) We had to make a special version of Windows 95 for them.