Siri, What Time Is It in London?

Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by jvolkman on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:34PM (#23273921)

IIRC it had something to do with the parent hierarchy of my neighborhood. It was parented by both a postal code and a city, or something. I'm probably making that up, but I'm sure you can imagine how difficult it is to create and maintain abstractions for every possible geographic situation.

I wasn't aware of any other occurrences.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by DenisM on Friday May 22, 2020 @12:52PM (#23274151)

Not only a zip code can span cities, a single city/zip can span multiple tax authorities e.g. parts of Redmond, WA zip code 98052 are under Regional Transit Authority and others are not.

I think that pretty much any assumption we're making about strict hierarchy are bound to be broken at some point.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by llbeansandrice on Friday May 22, 2020 @01:21PM (#23274563)

I worked with zip codes on a project. Zip codes are a nightmare. They cross everything. There are zip codes which cross state-lines. Zip codes which are not a single contiguous area of land. So many issues.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by reaperducer on Friday May 22, 2020 @03:58PM (#23276242)

I feel your pain. It turns out there are even a group of ZIP codes that apply only to specific businesses, buildings, or even people (if you're important enough).

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by jimktrains2 on Friday May 22, 2020 @08:33PM (#23278683)

That's because zip codes aren't defined by an area, but by postal routes.

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Re:Siri, What Time Is It in London? by philwelch on Friday May 22, 2020 @02:19PM (#23275226)

Zip codes don’t denote geographic regions; they denote nodes in the postal routing network.

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