From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 103457 invoked by alias); 6 Aug 2015 17:22:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 81490 invoked by uid 89); 6 Aug 2015 17:16:05 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: www.open-std.org Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 17:22:00 -0000 From: keld@keldix.com To: Paul Eggert Cc: Marko Myllynen , GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove locale timezone information Message-ID: <20150806171601.GB28963@www5.open-std.org> References: <556F23C9.3030500@redhat.com> <557AE725.5050104@redhat.com> <20150805090748.GH26572@vapier> <20150805100126.GA11842@www5.open-std.org> <20150805102233.GA12350@www5.open-std.org> <55C237BE.1010806@cs.ucla.edu> <20150806025644.GT26572@vapier> <20150806143033.GA15854@www5.open-std.org> <55C37365.7020906@cs.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <55C37365.7020906@cs.ucla.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00076.txt.bz2 On Thu, Aug 06, 2015 at 07:47:01AM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote: > On 08/06/2015 07:30 AM, keld@keldix.com wrote: > >Still, if you order the timezones for a country in some way, eg order of > >population, > >or alphabetically, you could probably find a solution that is useful to > >most > >people. > > This is already done, by applications outside glibc. For example, the > tzselect program (part of of the tzcode distribution) lets you list > tzdata names alphabetically, or in order of distance from your location, > or geographically. Other commonly-used time zone selectors do something > fancier, e.g., based on shapefiles. None of > these selectors are based on the recently-removed glibc locale > information, or would benefit from reverting the removal. Given that the data is not present in current locales, I understand this. But with good data in the locales, that would be another matter. best regards keld