Quoting Paul Wise (pabs@debian.org): > I agree with the other Australians in the thread; the east-coast > timezones are currently all the same but might not be in the future so > we shouldn't rely on them being the same and we should allow selection > of Australia/Sydney vs Australia/Melbourne. Sure. That was an option I was considering, too. I'm just not fond of "Australia/Sydney" presented as a choice, I'd rather have "New South-Wales". Given that the map idea is great...but just an idea which I certainly am unable to implement, and that I have to deal with what we have *now*, I hereby propose selecting states: New South-Wales Victoria Australian Capital Territory Queensland Tasmania South Australia Northern Territory Western Australia Eyre Highway Yancowinna county Lord Howe Island I will probably propose the same for some federal countries where timzeone and DST rules are set by states/provinces: Brazil and Argentina come to mind (Russia is too complicated for this to be a sane option). So could Mexico. USA and Canada are a fairly different case: the overall use of Atlantic/Eastern/Central/Moutain/Pacific is quite well known among the countries. We may just need to deal with specific exception (Navajo nation not following DST, the Indiana nightmare, etc.) I'll open separate thread for each country to avoid something too messy.
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