Time zone translations (TIMEZONES file)

Chusslove Illich caslav.ilic at gmx.net
Sat Dec 6 23:10:50 GMT 2008


> [: David Jarvie :]
> Perhaps it should be run by anyone with a "standard" system zone.tab for
> their distro/operating system, and it should add (and not delete) any
> strings not already in TIMEZONES. That way, it might in theory eventually
> accumulate all the strings which any user might meet on their system.
> [...]

Yes, that's what I made the script to do: never remove anything from
TIMEZONES, only add (including comments, in case a comment for an existing
timezone is changed).

> [...] there still remains the problem of how to actually get people on all
> the systems which have distinct zone.tab's to run the script and update
> the file.

We should look into where do these zone.tab files come from, then we'll have
an idea on what distinct systems it is prudent to run the accumulation
script.

> In the meantime, at least the comments from somebody's zone.tab should
> really be incorporated, provided the translators find this acceptable. (I
> think the original request arose from translators - Anne-Marie can confirm
> this.)

Since these are untranslatable strings present since long ago, the standing
policy is to add them on the spot. So I committed the new TIMEZONES
resulting from the run on my system (fairly uptodate Debian testing); the
extra 184 messages I mentioned earlier will tomorrow hit translator shores.

-- 
Chusslove Illich (Часлав Илић)
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