On 03/17/2016 02:35 PM, Karel Volný wrote:
for example, originally there was:
AQ -6617+11031 Antarctica/Casey Casey Station, Bailey Peninsula
the proposal[*] was to change it to:
AQ -6617+11031 Antarctica/Casey Bailey Peninsula (Casey Station)
but the actual 2016b version has:
AQ -6617+11031 Antarctica/Casey Casey
considering that other locations weren't stripped in such way, just abbreviated, I believe this is error ...(?)
When trying out the proposal, I noticed the longstanding problem that commentary like "Bailey Peninsula", which was originally intended to simply tell users where Casey Station was, could easily be misinterpreted to imply that all of Bailey Peninsula observes Casey's time zone. Since Antarctica is not really divided up into time zones in the usual sense (each station decides on its own, somewhat arbitrarily from a geographical point of view, with no recognized regions or boundaries between zones), and since anybody in Antarctica who needs to use those entries will most likely know which station they're in sync with, I thought it better to remove the potentially-misleading information and just list the station.