On 3 September 2013 08:33, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
This should allay concerns that the links would go away any time soon. Suggested by Stephen Colebourne in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019801.html>. Change "`" to "'"; these days, "`" and "'" are not symmetric. * antarctica (Antarctica/McMurdo): * europe (Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man) (Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Vatican, Europe/San_Marino) (Arctic/Longyearbyen, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/Podgorica) (Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Bratislava): * northamerica (America/St_Barthelemy, America/Marigot): * southamerica (America/Lower_Princes, America/Kralendijk): Move here from 'backward'. This reverts a 2013-08-09 change.
Thank you. I note that America/Shiprock and Antarctica/South_Pole were not reverted. In my view, stability indicates that they should be reverted. For example, as per http://norbertlindenberg.com/ecmascript/intl.html#sec-6.4.2, the normalized ID seen in ECMAscript for the south pole will change from South_Pole to Auckland. While this is not incorrect from a local time perspective, it doesn't seem right from a human perspective. I note that this Link is also cross-ISO boundary, which should also be a warning sign. At a minimum I would ask that the "backward" Link be from South_Pole to McMurdo. I don't know enough about Shiprock to comment. Stephen