Rick Thomas wrote:
For what it's worth, the timezone database (as evidenced by, among
other things, the output of the "tzselect" command) is organized
mostly in terms of country/city rather than country/larger-
geographical-area.
This is also largely misunderstood, as often two cities with different
entries in the database observe identical time zone rules today. In
some
cases they only differed for a week a century ago. I would not
consider
the TZ database or tzselect anything resembling a useful UI, although
it is an interesting exercise in completism.
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see shy jo, still in his own timezone!