Wikidata:Property proposal/IANA time zone identifier

IANA time zone identifier edit

Originally proposed at Wikidata:Property proposal/Generic

Done: IANA timezone ID (P6687) (Talk and documentation)

Represents	IANA time zone (Q17272692)
Data type	String
Template parameter	n/a
Example 1	America/New_York (Q28146035) → `America/New_York`
Example 2	Europe/London (Q16894228) → `Europe/London`
Example 3	Europe/Paris (Q5412120) → `Europe/Paris`
Example 4	Australia/Sydney (Q4823536) → `Australia/Sydney`
Planned use	I plan to label the existing zone entities, and use the label on new zone entities I create.
Number of IDs in source	388
Expected completeness	eventually complete (Q21873974)

Motivation edit

We have entities for some fraction of the IANA time zones (Q17272692), and I plan to add the rest. Currently (if only by convention), the English name of each entity matches the IANA zone name, but the IANA zone names are true identifiers, so I think it makes sense to correlate them more definitively on that basis. (Correlating via entity name is imperfect, as they're subject to edit. Indeed at least one of our existing IANA time zones has a slightly wrong name: America/Argentina/La_Rioja (Q4742629) corresponds to the official IANA zone identifier America/Argentina/La_Rioja.) Scs (talk) 03:32, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Discussion edit

Support, as nom. Scs (talk)
Support Mahir256 (talk) 16:34, 2 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]
@Scs: Can you elaborate more in your examples, please? I don't understand what you are trying to propose, is and identifier? If so, where are the source of it? Good contributions, Ederporto (talk) 03:20, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Ederporto: The IANA tz database (Q187176) at https://www.iana.org/time-zones consists of 388 time zones with identifiers like America/New_York. So our Q28146035 would have this new ID America/New_York; our Q16894228 would have ID Europe/London; our Q4823536 would be Australia/Sydney; etc. Scs (talk) 04:07, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

@Scs, Mahir256: Property IANA timezone ID (P6687) Done. Good contributions, Ederporto (talk) 10:18, 14 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]