Paul Eggert wrote:
Alan Barrett wrote:
To the best of my knowledge, most other African countries that share the same UTC offset do not use the abbreviation "SAST"
Thanks for catching this; this was indeed an error in the merge, and I'll prepare a patch shortly that reverts to the previous behavior here as well.
By "most other African countries" I expect you meant the same set of countries that use "CAT" rather than "SAST" in Release 2014e. Anyway, the revised patch turned into more research than I expected, but I finally came up with the attached proposal. This patch fixes the problem you noted, along with the other specific problems noted, though it does still turn some zones into links when there's no good evidence for the zones' differences. I hope I correctly puzzled out Google Translate's mangling of Hungarian for the fixes to Hungarian daylight saving time rules in 1918-1945. Oross's work has facsimiles of the original material! If only our other sources were as meticulous....