[threeten-dev] old US time-zone names

[Stephen Colebourne]

No reason not to agree with the old JDK code here AFAICT.

On 29 January 2013 19:20, Xueming Shen <xueming.shen at oracle.com> wrote:
> Stephen,
>
> I'm comparing the "older" US time-zone names defined in ZoneId and
> in jdk's   make/sun/javazic/tzdata_jdk/jdk11_backward. It appears the
> EST and MST are being mapped to different city name. jdk11_backward
> picks the "golden" city name, which seems reasonable. Is there any
> reference for ZoneId's pick? Just wonder whether we can consolidate
> these two.
>
> jdk11_backward:
> EST    America/New_York
> MST    America/Denver
>
> ZoneId:
> EST    America/Indianapolis
> MST    America/Phoenix
>
> There are other two, the Kolkats vs Calcutta and Saigon vs Ho_Chi_Minh,
> the jdk11_backward picks the "old" names, which is being linked back
> to the new names in backward file, so these two are not an issue.
>
> -Sherman