On Jun 10, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Mark Davis wrote:
I'd very much appreciate any feedback on the proposal.
Some of the countries listed as missing zones are: Bouvet Island - an uninhabited volcanic island, almost entirely covered by glaciers, controlled by Norway, and designated as a nature reserve, according to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bv.html I don't know if the automated meteorological station on the island cares about time zones or not. Heard Island and McDonald Islands - uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic islands now controlled by Australia, designated as a nature preserve, according to http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/hm.html They don't even mention any automated meteorological stations, just seals and birds. Yugoslavia - it's now Serbia and Montenegro. Europe/Belgrade is the correct zone for it. Some of the time zones listed as missing countries are: Europe/Belgrade: Serbia and Montenegro, which has the ISO 3166-1 Alpha-2 code CS, according to http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/01whats-new/2003 -07-23_statement_cs.html Asia/Riyadh{87,88,89}: Saudi Arabia, SA - those are historical, from an era when Saudi Arabia used solar time, and apply only to Riyadh (and, if you're really fussy, to a particular location in Riyadh, I guess), so they're not appropriate for Saudi Arabia as a whole. I don't know what names you'd give them. Etc/GMT{[+-]N} are just for fixed GMT offsets; they don't correspond to countries. WET, CET, MET, and EET "are for backward compatibility with older versions"; various Europe/XXX rules should presumably be used instead - I guess you could pick cities for each of them.