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. -- see shy jo, still in his own timezone!
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