[Talk-us] Timezones in USA?

[Richard Welty]

On 5/26/16 3:54 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
>
> ​
> ​I see the attraction to including TZ data in the OSM, ​but the
> timezone definitions are in flux more than most political boundaries.
'....
> Whether core OSM is the right place to store and serve this is one
> question;
> what team/project commits to maintaining it another;
> and how it can be structured to reuse OSM existing political entity
> border relations without causing problems. 
this is an easy one: don't do it. Bill is right, tz data is very fluid.
count how many times
a year the tzdata file updates on a Linux box. it will never be quite
right, it will always
be a source of trouble.

richard

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