On 9/3/2026 3:24 PM, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
One fairly major concern was the name for the new zone identifier, as there are many other Goldens in the Americas; most notably, Golden, Colorado (pop. ~20,400) which is probably more broadly known than Golden, British Columbia (pop. ~4,000). Many ways we could disambiguate are either themselves ambiguous ("BC" also stands for "Baja California") or too long to use in a tz identifier component ("British Columbia" is 16 characters, our limit is 14), so we use "America/Brit_Columbia/Golden".
Is there any expectation that the city of Golden Colorado will need a time zone separate from Denver? And that a division would be drawn in Jefferson County where Golden would be the largest city in the new zone?
Perhaps RDEK will help resolve the issue by changing their decision during their next board meeting.
