Re: [tz] State of the tzdb

random832@fastmail.us wrote:

for all the ridiculous cluster of zones there are for Indiana, we don't have zones for the few pieces of Indiana that actually match zones outside the state. Nor for the parts of Idaho that don't follow America/Boise.

This seems to be an artifact of a simpler period in the database

No, it's not an artifact zone.tab was never intended to be a definitive delination of sub-country regions, and it does not have that role now, either. Kansas is split into two time zones, for example, but we don't have two entries for it in zone.tab -- the people in Kansas can use America/Denver or America/Chicago as appropriate. The situation for Indiana is similar: people in (say) Gary can use America/Chicago.