Why does Google Calendar use Vevay, Indiana (pop. 1,651) as a standard EDT city?

[jessriedel]

https://twitter.com/Jess_Riedel/status/1265357954162675713

[maxwell]

They get the locations from the tz database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_in_Indiana#tz_database

[maxwell → maxwell]

From the source:

    # Shanks partitioned Indiana into 345 regions, each with its own time history,
    # and wrote "Even newspaper reports present contradictory information."
    # Those Hoosiers!  Such a flighty and changeable people!
    # Fortunately, most of the complexity occurred before our cutoff date of 1970.
    #
    # Other than Indianapolis, the Indiana place names are so nondescript
    # that they would be ambiguous if we left them at the 'America' level.
    # So we reluctantly put them all in a subdirectory 'America/Indiana'.

https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/e6c1f0e7daa0b6c5131b2976c6...