Shane F. Carr

Oh, hmm, yeah that might work, although it would mean that you get "Mountain Time (Denver)", so basically one bad apple spoils the format for all time zones in that...

Maybe we just mark America/Phoenix as "strange" (within a certain period of time) and print "Mountain Time (Phoenix)" all year round?

We probably shouldn't be the ones deciding this. Maybe bring it to CLDR Design WG.

> > We probably shouldn't be the ones deciding this. Maybe bring it to CLDR Design WG. > > CLDR wants us to use the TZDB for this. CLDR only...

If TZDB is really the only way to do this, it's not completely out of the picture to make our own annotation in IXDTF. It is allowed in the spec...

A question Mark asked last time we briefly discussed this, IIRC, was "check what ICU4C does". I haven't checked yet but we should do that.

> ICU requires a full TZDB, so they can do the clever thing. We don't want to ship a full TZDB. Yes, but what are they _actually_ doing?

> Not a fan of this. This would require it to be an additional field of whatever we settle on in #5533. If the condition isn't derivable from offset plus...

Well, even in that case, don't we still need it in the input schema? Either as a unique zone variant, metazone, or additional field?

Well, even in that case, don't we still need it in the input schema? Either as a unique zone variant, metazone, or additional field?