From: Andy McDonald [mailto:andy@stemhaus.com] A very very minor point, but I've run across a few inaccurate latitudes/longitudes in tz's zone.tab (2006g and earlier): Corrected lat/long zone.tab lat/long America/Argentina/Tucuman: -0265000, -0651300 -0312400, -0641100 America/Inuvik: +0682200, -1334400 +0682500, -1133000 America/Rainy_River: +0484300, -0943400 +0484300, -0942900 America/Rankin_Inlet +0624800, -0920500 +0624500, -0921000 America/Scoresbysund: +0703000, -0215800 +0703000, -0221500
From the GEOnet Names Server http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/cntry_files.html From the Argentina file: Tucumán, populated place, type "PPLA: seat of a first-order administrative division", lat lon: -26:49:00, -065:13:00 From the Greenland file: Scoresbysund, populated place, type PPL: +70:29:00, -021:58:00 From the Canada file: Inuvik, populated place, type PPL: +68:21:00, -133:42:00 Rainy River, populated place, type PPL: +48:43:00, -094:34:00 Rankin Inlet, populated place, type PPL: +62:49:00, -092:05:00
I carefully selected the populated place locations, not locations of other features. Mr. McDonald seems to bring us much closer to the values from the GEOnet database. Which source is the most reliable? I'd suggest: use the GEOnet data. Local mean times (hh:mm:ss), based on the GEOnet data: Tucumán: -04:20:52 Scoresbysund: -01:27:52 Inuvik: -08:54:48 Rainy River: -06:18:16 Rankin Inlet: -06:08:20 Oscar van Vlijmen