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A fork for the time-zone database?

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 12, 2021 0:22 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by sammythesnake
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

Behold the wonders:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address

The only internationally portable way to represent addresses, if you don't have the budget to throw piles of money at a company whose primary revenue stream is extracting capitalist rent from control of access to an address database, is as a series of freeform lines written in either Latin letters or the addressee's native script.

It should be noted that even the craziest house numberings usually have some kind of logic, though you may have to analyse its development diachronically rather than synchronically for it to become apparent.


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