On 2019-02-19 00:53, Guy Harris wrote:
On Feb 18, 2019, at 9:47 PM, Kevin Lyda <kevin@ie.suberic.net> wrote:
By populations... % ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/|wc -l 144 % ls /usr/share/zoneinfo/Asia/|wc -l 99 Asia has around 59% of the world's population in 48 countries; the Americas have 14% in 35 countries. Seems quite possible there's scope to improve things in Asia. Yes, Asia could split itself into more countries, for example.... Or perhaps Asian countries are not as crazy as Western Hemisphere countries about doing silly things with summer/daylight savings time rules: $ egrep '^Rule' northamerica southamerica | wc -l 610 $ egrep '^Rule' asia | wc -l 463 or about having multiple zones per country (China has two, the contiguous 48 states of the US has four plus various random places that don't do DST): $ egrep '^Zone' northamerica southamerica | wc -l 140 $ egrep '^Zone' asia | wc -l 61 I.e., having a lot of stuff in the tzdb for your continent could be considered a bug rather than a feature; that is *not* necessarily a sign that the tzdb doesn't do a good enough job of covering your continent, it may be just a sign that your continent doesn't impose as much of a burden on the tzdb....
...also the tzdb requires a documentary reference source for time zone history - someone to translate that into English - and post it to this list - finding the former - doing the latter - and posting it here - seems to be a barrier - perhaps due to language - perhaps lack of interest, involvement, skills to address the issue, or the combination thereof leading to finding this list? -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised.