Re: Locales, formats, and time zone madness

On Thu, 15 May 2008, David E. Wheeler wrote:

> On May 14, 2008, at 16:49, Dave Rolsky wrote:
>
>> So the question is whether it's worth bothering with this. I'm kind of 
>> tempted to just punt and simply display either a long TZ name, 
>> abbreviation, or offset.
>
> I think that's a reasonable place to start. You'd just need to document that 
> this bit doesn't quite conform, and patches welcome. I like starting with 90% 
> solutions.

That was what I decided after sending the message. I figure it's better to 
get _something_ done, because right now things are very broken, and 
sticking "v" in a string is significantly more wrong than fudging a time 
zone representation for it.

Plus this is going to be big enough even without the time zone bits, I'm 
discovering. There's lots that DT::Locale wasn't handling, and the 
existing generation tool code is really grotty.


-dave

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