# Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) # is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part.
I agree with the approach, but I would not recommend the text you have. As I said, the best reference in all such cases is the UN Statistics Division: http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm. That is, for example, what the proposed successor to RFC 3066 (language tags, as used in HTML and XML) is using. And according to that, Georgia is in Asia. Citing Herodotus is of some historical interest, but doesn't give you a good bright-line test. And if this issue were to come up again, because, say, some region separates from Russia, you have a bright-line test; you can just point at the UN site and say you are following whatever the UN uses. Mark ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> To: "Tz" <tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov> Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 12:23 Subject: Re: Time Zone change in GEORGIA (Eastern Europe), time zone is no w GMT+3 (no longer GMT+4)
Aiet Kolkhi <aiet@qartuli.net> writes:
I agree that whenever the city Tbilisi is noted, it should be put in Asian region, whereas mentioning the country, maybe we should put it in Europe, or in Europe and Asia if possible.
OK, to do that, in my next proposed update I'll add a cross reference from the "europe" file to the "asia" file. We already do this sort of thing for Turkey and Russia, two other countries that straddle the boundary between Europe and Asia. I've drafted this change:
# Georgia # Please see the "asia" file for Asia/Tbilisi. # Herodotus (Histories, IV.45) says Georgia north of the Phasis (now Rioni) # is in Europe. Our reference location Tbilisi is in the Asian part.