[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Timezones?

[Clytie Siddall]

Hi guys :)

I'm in the middle of one of my running efforts to get developers to  
use iso-codes as a plugin/library for their software, so they won't  
have long lists of language names, country names, currency names etc.  
in their programs which we have to translate over and over again, and  
which they invariably fail to keep accurate or current.

In this case, it's Evolution (GNOME).

While paging through the huge Evolution translation file, I note that,  
in addition to a lo-o-ng list of language names, and an equally long  
list of time/date data they could get from the locale, Evo lists  
timezones. e.g.

#.
#.* These are the timezone names from the Olson timezone data.
#.* We only place them here so gettext picks them up for translation.
#.* Don't include in any C files.
#.
#: ../calendar/zones.h:7
msgid "Africa/Abidjan"
msgstr "Châu Phi/Abidjan"

Any chance iso-codes will take on timezones?

More and more programs are including timezones, so iso-codes would be  
a way to standardize this data and its translations.

Thankyou for all your good work. :)

from Clytie

Vietnamese Free Software Translation Team
http://vnoss.net/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=projects:l10n