This is true, but there's one fly in the ointment I noticed: a lot of people _hate_ using time zones that refer to a real life location.
They ain't gonna bother finding out whether "Europe/Paris" is like a wide slice of France or just specifically Paris, they don't want to tell you they live in Paris and will get annoyed.
When using things to like, schedule online community events or whatever, this has been a pain. People _want_ to use fixed offset, they are fine with things like "CET/CEST", and _hate_ things like "Europe/yourexactcoordinates."
And before you run into here, _I_ know time zones well enough to be chill - most of them (all?) are actually really large areas. But there's plenty of people who are both privacy-minded and not really interested in researching the differences between a "time" and a "time zone" or whatever because they aren't terminal dorks.
They ain't gonna bother finding out whether "Europe/Paris" is like a wide slice of France or just specifically Paris, they don't want to tell you they live in Paris and will get annoyed.
When using things to like, schedule online community events or whatever, this has been a pain. People _want_ to use fixed offset, they are fine with things like "CET/CEST", and _hate_ things like "Europe/yourexactcoordinates."
And before you run into here, _I_ know time zones well enough to be chill - most of them (all?) are actually really large areas. But there's plenty of people who are both privacy-minded and not really interested in researching the differences between a "time" and a "time zone" or whatever because they aren't terminal dorks.