I got replies back from Olson DB ML members. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2769/focus=2770
In summary, the names in the database are the way it is on purpose, and if that's a problem it should be handled by WordPress. I don't think it's a critical issue and probably not worth spending too much time at the moment, but I'll submit a trac ticket. There was another person who sent me a direct email also. His points are similar to Scott who sent a reply to the mailing list. ---------------------------------------------------------------- One thing to remember is that the Olson strings are not *primarily* designed to be human-readable, but rather to be usable in Unix. The *displayed* strings can and often should be independent of those. (The primary public project that concerns itself with displayable names is the CLDR, http://cldr.unicode.org/ hosted at the Unicode site.) As for including countries/cities, usually Olson does not do so. They do for those few places only because the locations would be ambiguous without them. 1. It includes duplicates primarily for backward compatibility. Choose whichever you consider more appropriate. 2. Not typos, but munging to get them within the 14-character limit. Do expand them to full form. 3. It's also acceptable to write "Canberra" instead of either "ACT" or its spelled-out form. 4. Again, backward compatibility is paramount in the Olson database's thinking. 5. Central Western is a tiny zone on the border between SA and WA, and actually maintains time halfway between them (in the absence of Summer Time, which it observes on the same schedule as SA. UCT is just in for some kind of compatibility. J Andrew Lipscomb ---------------------------------------------------------------- Naoko McCracken _______________________________________________ wp-polyglots mailing list [email protected] http://lists.automattic.com/mailman/listinfo/wp-polyglots
