Does local time zone need a name?

[David Jarvie]

There has been a thread on kde-core-devel debating whether the local time zone 
name needs to be identified. Because of the title of the thread, "KDED time 
zone module", some people may have ignored it.

The thread has ended up as a debate between myself and Thiago about whether or 
not it is necessary to know the name of the local time zone. I have argued 
that it is necessary for display to the user (in time zone selection combo 
boxes at least), and for writing to iCalendar (and probably other data also). 
Thiago argues that simply calling it "local zone" (or similar) is sufficient, 
the benefit being to avoid what can in some circumstances be a costly 
initialisation process to identify it. For details, see the thread referred 
to, particularly from 
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=117534844924723&w=2 onwards.

I'd appreciate it if some KDE PIM people, and others, could give their views 
so that it isn't a debate between just two people.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm
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