Brian Inglis wrote:
Turkey and Istanbul are in both eastern Europe and western Asia i.e.
$ ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/*/Istanbul /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/Istanbul /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Istanbul
A historical note for tzdb nerds. In 1993 when I originally wrote the entry for Istanbul, I naively thought that the city was primarily in Asia. But after I looked it up, I found that geographically the city was more European, e.g., its European side was larger and its ancient heart is on the Europe side. To avoid similar confusion by others, when I renamed my private draft's zone to Europe/Istanbul I added a link to the Asia name. I figured that Istanbul would present a unique problem in Zone naming as it is the only major city that straddles continental boundaries. Little did I know, eh?