Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2016 06:43:38 +0100 From: Andreas Heigl <andreas@heigl.org> Message-ID: <82CE3F77-F5B2-4D3A-AD0A-AC191F4563CD@heigl.org> | As far as I understood the timezonedb so far it's about making | the life of people easier. That's not correct. It is about documenting the different time zones that exist. If that happens to make life easier for someone or other, that's just a fortunate by-product, it is not an objective. | When Istanbul has two entries due it's unclear state on being european | or asian, That's not correct either. For Istanbul (and Turkey as a whole) it is very clear that it is both European and Asian. That is, it (both Istanbul and Turkey) straddles the divide between Europe and Asia. I'm not going to comment on Cyprus, I don't understand either the geographic or political issues involved - though I will say that membership of the EU is irrelevant to our purposes. Given enough time passing, that body may grow to include almost anyone, whether they're geographically European or not. kre