[Pkg-isocodes-devel] Timezones?

[Clytie Siddall]

On 21/01/2008, at 11:31 PM, Aurelien Jarno wrote:

<a little snipping for brevity>
>>
>> From the translator POV, the great advantages of standardizing these
>> lists via iso-codes are:
>>
>> 1. the original strings are comprehensive, accurate and correctly
>> spelt (!)
>>
>> 2. we only have to translate them once, and maintain that single
>> translation
>
> I don't think it is very easy to change the names in tzdata (except if
> they are wrong). They are standardized among various UNIX systems, so
> the only way it can work is by importing the names from tzdata into
> iso-codes. Also a patch to change the names will be difficult to
> maintain wrt new upstream versions.
>
> From my point of view, this has to be done in the reverse way, that is
> importing cities from tzdata into iso-codes, and then using the
> translation from iso-codes in tzdata.

I'm sorry I didn't explain myself more clearly.

I didn't mean "we won't have to translate anything again, because we  
can use the data from other iso-codes files" (as attractive a thought  
as it may be ;) ), I meant:

Once you establish each iso-codes canonical file, we only have to  
translate it here, and maintain it here. We don't have to translate  
it, or pale and messy copies/extracts of it, all over the place. Just  
one translation job for data that can be used in different places.  
That's good use of our resources.

from Clytie

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