A fork for the time-zone database?

A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 12, 2021 12:22 UTC (Tue) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by nye
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

Which is a failure of the database that's on offer - and really should be in delivery notes, not part of the address. So your address as stored in Amazon's systems should be "1 Some Street, Town, County, Postcode", with a note for the driver saying "Some Street is not accessible by car - go to 2 The Other Street, and then you can walk it".

The delivery notes, of course, are free-form.

Ideally, there would be routes to feed back the issue to the database owner, so that when you pick "1 Some Street" for your Amazon package, the resulting label and bar codes direct their in-van satnav to "2 The Other Street" and tell them to walk the rest of the way.

And Kickstarter have no excuse - when you first add your address to your account, they can ask you if you made a mistake, but after that they should be using the address on file as-is, not insisting on reconfirmation. While they may well be right that you're getting the address "wrong" (if it's a UK address, the correct form loses County nowadays, so it would be "1 Some Street, Town, Postcode"), they should only be asking you to correct it if it's actually causing problems.

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