Talk:List of tz database time zones/Archive 2015

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Edit request

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments1 person in discussion

The big red message said to discuss any changes here, so would replacing the last four lines with the following be okay? Squiver (talk) 21:18, 2 February 2015 (UTC)

{{UTC time offsets}}

[[Category:Time zones| ]]
[[Category:Tz database| ]]

I went ahead and made the edit. Squiver (talk) 19:55, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Table Enhancement Request: 1) abbreviations and 2) metrics for use or population

I would really like to see the abbreviations for each timezone in a separate column. I would also like to see another column with metrics for degree of use or for population in each time zone. This would be useful for sorting time zones to put the most used or most important time zones of each offset at the top. -landen99 "I am, therefore I think." Ayn Rand 15:20, 10 April 2015 (UTC)

Database Needs an Update to fix Several Articles

Latest comment: 9 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

Articles such as CST6CDT are broken due to the database on this page. I doubt it's because the tz database was out of date or something (I don't know much about the tz database), but whatever entry in the database that needs to be added should be to repair this article. Thanks. ~NottNott ( ✉ -☻) 23:08, 1 June 2015 (UTC)

CST6CDT is a legacy timezone from System V days [source code]. Should this page even exist? I assume this list is for *active * time zones that have TZ environment variable. Skfd (talk) 19:53, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

Method to generate this page

Latest comment: 9 years ago7 comments4 people in discussion

I assume this table was generated with some sort of script. Unfortunately this page is not up to date. Can author provide the code he used? Skfd (talk) 21:40, 8 July 2015 (UTC)

There is no such code as an author. Just update it, referencing the source. Ignore the alarm.

— Dutral (talk) 15:55, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

Hi, this page shows that it is using 2014b version of Tz database, however the time offset for Asia/Pyongyang is updated based on 2015f. CSubrata1106 (talk) 21:26, 29 September 2015 (UTC)subrata

Updated accordingly.

— Dutral (talk) 15:55, 16 October 2015 (UTC)

I'm planning to post a big edit to update this for the current release (2015g). Any objections? mj1856 (talk) 01:33, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Done. Hopefully I did it right. I had to also update Template:Time zone/version. I'm not sure if I should update the other templates or not - seems like a lot of duplication and outdated info in them. Any ideas about those? Perhaps at one point they were in use, but I'm not sure if they are any more. Thanks. mj1856 (talk) 05:36, 22 October 2015 (UTC)

Note - I wrote some utility code to help generate the file programmatically, from TZDB sources - so I can update this with each TZDB release. If anyone is interested, LMK and I will post the code somewhere. (It is just a C# .NET console application.) mj1856 (talk) 05:39, 22 October 2015 (UTC)