[Bug localedata/18525] New: Remove locale timezone information

["myllynen at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18525

            Bug ID: 18525
           Summary: Remove locale timezone information
           Product: glibc
           Version: 2.21
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: localedata
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: myllynen at redhat dot com
                CC: libc-locales at sourceware dot org
  Target Milestone: ---

Currently only 6 out of almost 300 locales provide timezone information and all
of them are either incomplete (km_KH, lo_LA, my_MM, th_TH - missing at least
the semicolon separator and possibly also the rule definitions) or incorrect
(uk_UA and nan_TW@latin, see
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-06/msg00104.html). It is also
inconsistent that only a small subset of locales are trying to provide this
information while most are not. As explained in
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-06/msg00193.html it doesn't sounds
like a good idea to start doing this in glibc as it would cause additional
maintenance burden for glibc maintainers, distribution glibc packages, and
system administrators for no obvious benefits.

I propose that we remove the locale timezone information. Thanks.

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