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iana timezone alias comparison bug asia calcutta kolkata
Two zone identifiers can name the same real zone and still fail ===
Asia/Calcutta resolves back as Asia/Calcutta, not its modern alias Asia/Kolkata -- modern engines no longer canonicalize aliases, so comparing two zone strings with === can wrongly call the same zone different.
This is one of the things Scheduling & Availability Core already handles. Bookings and availability that survive timezones, repeating events and daylight saving — without double-booking.
Is this you?
Comparing two zone identifiers with === to decide whether two resources are 'in the same timezone' can return false for two zones that are, in fact, the identical real-world zone under different names -- Asia/Calcutta and Asia/Kolkata resolve to the same offsets everywhere, and modern engines deliberately no longer canonicalize one to the other, because Temporal's own standardization requires an identifier to survive round-tripping unchanged.
Why this one is easy to get wrong
Two IANA strings that name the same zone under different aliases feels like exactly the kind of thing a runtime should normalize automatically -- and for a long time, some engines did. The behavior changed as part of Temporal's standardization work, so code written or tested against an older assumption about alias canonicalization silently stops matching zones it used to consider equal.
What you get instead
The pack's own rule is stated as a hard constraint: never compare two zone identifiers with === to decide they're the same zone. Where a comparison is genuinely needed, the pack compares resolved UTC offsets at specific probe instants instead of the identifier strings themselves -- which is correct regardless of which alias either resource happens to be configured with.
Source: ARCHITECTURE.md 'Zone identity (decided)' — checkable in the pack you receive
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