Read misc.territory, timezone, useragent and car as tables, and state the data rules behind them #23

2026-09-18T23:13:25+02:00

lilleman commented

2026-09-18 23:13:25 +02:00

ISO 3166-1 codes territories rather than sovereign states, so misc.country is
misc.territory, and a sourced country column names the state each belongs to —
DK for Greenland, FI for Åland, its own code for a sovereign one, and its own
for Western Sahara, which the register records no state for.

misc.timezone, misc.useragent and misc.car become tables. misc.timezone is
tzdb zone.tab's zone per territory with the zone's standard offset, linked to
misc.territory, so misc.territory[SE].timezone draws Europe/Stockholm;
misc.useragent the top-user-agents lists with browser, device and os;
misc.car its own makes and models, with maker renamed make.

README Goals gains goal 10, that data is sourced or on its way there, and Decisions
gains the three rules that settled these choices without asking: what misc takes,
that a register's canonical spelling loses to the one its domain writes, and that
misc.territory is the spine a misc table naming a territory links to.

ISO 3166-1 codes territories rather than sovereign states, so `misc.country` is `misc.territory`, and a sourced `country` column names the state each belongs to — `DK` for Greenland, `FI` for Åland, its own code for a sovereign one, and its own for Western Sahara, which the register records no state for. `misc.timezone`, `misc.useragent` and `misc.car` become tables. `misc.timezone` is tzdb `zone.tab`'s zone per territory with the zone's standard offset, linked to `misc.territory`, so `misc.territory[SE].timezone` draws `Europe/Stockholm`; `misc.useragent` the top-user-agents lists with `browser`, `device` and `os`; `misc.car` its own makes and models, with `maker` renamed `make`. README Goals gains goal 10, that data is sourced or on its way there, and Decisions gains the three rules that settled these choices without asking: what `misc` takes, that a register's canonical spelling loses to the one its domain writes, and that `misc.territory` is the spine a `misc` table naming a territory links to.

lilleman added 6 commits 2026-09-18 23:13:25 +02:00

Expect misc.territory and the sovereign it names, in place of misc.country e9d8603611

Rename misc.country to misc.territory, name each one's sovereign state, and state the four data rules that settle it b0db82f2f1

Re-pin the shipped shape for misc.territory and its country column 66d11ce1c7

Expect misc.timezone, car and useragent as tables, and a territory's zone inside it 97c4e17671

Read misc.timezone from tzdb and misc.useragent from top-user-agents, and give misc.car its own rows file 604bcb1878

Re-pin the shipped shape for the three misc tables and a territory's zone

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