On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 12:38 AM, Random832 <[email protected]> wrote:
> On the IANA side of things, the tzid is not intended to be displayed as > a human-readable way to identify the timezone (and this is used to > rebuff demands by users to create tzids for cities like Brasilia and > Beijing that people want to see represented over Sao Paulo and Shanghai) > > What is the reason for wanting this? > My proposal was indeed prompted by the recent discussion on the IANA mailing list about human readable abbreviations being changed to numeric codes. It is not uncommon for people to display timezones with '%Z %z' format which with recent changes would result in "+10 +1000" for say Asia/Vladivostok. With the proposed %/ code, "%/ %z" would print "Asia/Vladivostok +1000" which looks like an improvement even over the original "VLAT +1000". The results of strftime() are not necessarily intended for displaying directly to end users. An application can have an extra layer that translates tzids for display and the raw tzids may be useful for saving times in text files or a database.
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