On 2013-05-08 01:42, Paul Koning wrote:
On May 7, 2013, at 5:00 PM, <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
On Tue, May 7, 2013, at 16:37, Aaron Brown wrote:
I don't think it's relevant what the rest of the world thinks. If everyone in Jerusalem agrees on one reality, and everyone outside Jerusalem agrees on a different reality, then it would be logical to go with the reality that is agreed upon by those in Jerusalem. It matters what time people in Jerusalem think it is, what time their clocks show,
Nobody is talking about changing the time definition for Asia/Jerusalem.
This argument is whether a line with "IL" in the first column and "Asia/Jerusalem" in the third column ought to appear in zone.tab. Nothing more, nothing less.
Ok then, should Asia/Taipei be listed with country code CN? Or not atall? It seems to me the exact same reasoning that is being used here applies to both cases.
I don't know why Asia/Taipei isn't listed under country code TW.
In fact, such a proposal is not being made. This tells me that the motivation for the current proposal is in fact not what its proponents are pretending it is.
I think it's more about reducing confusion, although there are arguments for and against maintaining the status quo. On the one hand, residents of Israel need a city to represent their timezone, and to them, Jerusalem seems the obvious choice. On the other hand, a sizeable minority of the citizens of Jerusalem (especially a sizeable minority(?) of the residents of East Jerusalem) probably don't acknowledge themselves as Israeli citizens and might rather follow Palestinian timezone rules, or perhaps switch between Israeli and Palestinian timezone rules on a daily basis, depending on transportation timetables, work requirements, religious congregational requirements, local TV schedules, opening times of local businesses, etc. I admit I have no very little knowledge of the actual situation on the ground in the affected regions and only threw country code XJ into the pot as a suggestion for further discussion.
paul, speaking only for himself and for no other person or organization.
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