On 9/29/21 9:32 AM, Robert Elz wrote:
Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2021 16:38:30 -0700 From: Paul Eggert via tz<tz@iana.org> Message-ID:<086e075f-05fc-4f4f-a2ff-c4eeb2f2ab2f@cs.ucla.edu>
| Also, the 'backzone' line you're referring to ("-1:00 - -01 1960 Jun 20" | [1]) is surely wrong,
... without evidence of the change happening at some other time, I would tend to believe that as it is written. Independence had been agreed with France months earlier - that is, they had plenty of time to prepare, and was to happen (and happened) on that date. Assuming that part of the preparation was to switch timezones along with independence, which is not an absurd suggestion
No, it is completely absurd. It's not how timezone rule changes work. No politician, no matter how amateur, would arrange to change the clocks merely because of Independence Day. It'd be a major political blunder if fiddling with the clocks is signaled as one of the most important things the new legislature or executive could do. And it would cause crowds to show up to parades at the wrong time. That particular data entry must be wrong, and I can say this as someone with extensive experience reviewing dubious timezone data (unfortunately this is not a large club).
| The more we get bogged down with irrelevant 'backzone' trivia like the | date of Mali's independence,
There's no need to get bogged down with that
Then let's not.
why does Pacific/Honolulu still exist as a zone given the apparent policy?
It differs from all other Zones in its combination of UT offsets and timezone abbreviations. My original proposal (now mostly reverted) involved writing a program that merged all Zones that agreed after 1970, so I doubt whether I missed any.