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Unclear time zone placeholders #3892

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opensdh opened this issue Mar 20, 2020 · 1 comment
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Unclear time zone placeholders #3892

opensdh opened this issue Mar 20, 2020 · 1 comment

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opensdh commented Mar 20, 2020

[time.zone.db.tzdb]/2 says

If a time_zone tz is found …

(and similarly for time_zone_link). The space between the two \tcodes not being visible in the draft, it's hard to see that this is a placeholder. (The paper uses commas, which are also confusing and were understandably left out of the editing.) Can we use other placeholders (Z and L would be an improvement, even though they have to be in code font) or a rephrasing like "(call it tz)"?
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There's a larger problem with this wording: found where? I think the intent is pretty obvious, but we fail to actually express it. To solve both problems, I'm going with:

If zones contains an element tz for which [...]
otherwise, if links contains an element tz_l for which tz_l.name() == tz_name, then a pointer to the element tz of zones for which [...]

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