Hi, is it logical to have these new zones named with cities (which are not that big and known, or unique), and Antilles earlier named with islands (/Aruba, /Curacao, /Dominica, /Martinique etc)? I would suggest zones: BQ America/Bonaire CW America/Curacao SX America/Sint_Maarten Or, if Sint Maarten, an island of two countries, needs a city, I would suggest SX America/Philipsburg ..because the settlements like Lower Prince's Quarter hardly qualify as a city as itself, and Philipsburg at least has a port, commercial centre of the island, and is the capital city. Other settlements are like suburbs of it. Number of residents sleeping within it does not matter as all the settlements are within few hundred meters to few km from it. Kind of we do not have America/Brooklyn (Brooklyn is the most populous of New York City's five boroughs). Regards, Jaakko On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Arthur David Olson wrote:
In respect to the the dissolution of AN (Netherlands Antilles), you are replacing its record with CW Curacao; but shouldn't a record also be added for the other country formed by the dissolution, namely Sint-Maarten (SX)?
Below are revised changes to get in sync with the current ISO3166 data; these changes are relative to the stuff on the ftp site.
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diff -r old/iso3166.tab new/iso3166.tab 2c2 < # @(#)iso3166.tab 8.6 ---
# @(#)iso3166.tab 8.9 23a24,27 # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15): # Resynchronized today with the ISO3116 site # (deleting AN and adding BQ, CW, and SX). # 33d36 < AN Netherlands Antilles 55a59 BQ Bonaire Sint Eustatius & Saba 77a82 CW Curacao 233a239 SX Sint Maarten diff -r old/southamerica new/southamerica 2c2 < # @(#)southamerica 8.49
# @(#)southamerica 8.50 1278a1279,1286 # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15): # At least for now, use links for places with new iso3166 codes. # The name "Lower Prince's Quarter" is both longer than fourteen charaters # and contains an apostrophe; use "Lower_Princes" below.
Link America/Curacao America/Lower_Princes # Sint Maarten Link America/Curacao America/Kralendijk # Bonaire, Sint Estatius and Saba
diff -r old/zone.tab new/zone.tab 2c2 < # @(#)zone.tab 8.43 ---
# @(#)zone.tab 8.45 35d34 < AN +1211-06900 America/Curacao 89a89 BQ +120903-0681636 America/Kralendijk 157a158 CW +1211-06900 America/Curacao 364a366 SX +180305-0630250 America/Lower_Princes
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