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Add test for obsolete names
While working on #40, I noticed we use several obsolete timezone names:
For example, most of those Europe/ should either be Europe/Brussels or Europe/Prague according to IANA.
On the one hand, I'm concerned about how much we're falling behind. E.g., it's been a long while since America/Godthab has been replaced with America/Nuuk.
On the other hand, if we follow IANA's deprecations, we'll greatly simplify our list, but we may lose some user-friendliness. E.g., Europe/Copenhagen is obsolete in favor of Europe/Berlin and would be completely gone. Is that OK?
Thoughts @amix?
Thoughts @amix?
It was many years ago I looked into this. I don't have any strong opinions here; we should follow the current best practices 😊
I wish I knew what “best practices” are in this context. 😅 My instinct is to follow IANA, but the whole debate about timezones doesn't feel very user-friendly in general.
Europe/Copenhagen is obsolete in favor of Europe/Berlin and would be completely gone. Is that OK?
How would you feel about this, as a user?
Europe/Copenhagen is obsolete in favor of Europe/Berlin and would be completely gone. Is that OK? How would you feel about this, as a user?
I would not care a lot, I think. Most Europeans are probably very timezone aware, and it would be easy to pick a city that's in the same timezone 🤔
In that case, I wonder if we should stop hard-coding a list of these ourselves and simply use IANA's of current defaults (minus deprecations). In other words, to generate these at runtime. I'll mention this in a team meeting, I may be missing something.