I am looking at updating the Efele maps (http://efele.net/maps/tz/), primarily to deal with the changes in Russia, and more generally make sure that the maps are in sync with the current/next release of TZ. TZ provides a bunch of zone names, either via a Zone entry or via a Link entry. I am taking this opportunity to make sure that all these names are accounted for, in one of three ways: - names that do not belong to the maps (e.g. Etc/UTC) - names that should have a corresponding area in the maps - names that are aliases for other names I elected to retain the current per-country separations, as I believe it is more appropriate for maps, and more generally to retain the finest granularity possible. Some users may want to merge areas that follow the sames rules, but may have different definition of same rules (e.g. some may want to fold what is not different since 1970, others may want to fold what is not different since last year; some may ignore the FORMAT, some may not), and the finest granularity accommodates the largest number of uses. Here is what I came up with. All the names of TZ are supposed to be present somewhere. Comments welcome. Thanks, Eric. These names will not appear in my maps: --- CET CST6CDT EET EST EST5EDT Etc/GMT Etc/GMT0 Etc/GMT-0 Etc/Greenwich GMT GMT+0 GMT0 GMT-0 Greenwich Etc/GMT+1 Etc/GMT+10 Etc/GMT+11 Etc/GMT+12 Etc/GMT+2 Etc/GMT+3 Etc/GMT+4 Etc/GMT+5 Etc/GMT+6 Etc/GMT+7 Etc/GMT+8 Etc/GMT+9 Etc/GMT-1 Etc/GMT-10 Etc/GMT-11 Etc/GMT-12 Etc/GMT-13 Etc/GMT-14 Etc/GMT-2 Etc/GMT-3 Etc/GMT-4 Etc/GMT-5 Etc/GMT-6 Etc/GMT-7 Etc/GMT-8 Etc/GMT-9 Etc/UCT UCT Etc/UTC Etc/Universal Etc/Zulu Universal UTC Zulu HST MET MST MST7MDT PST8PDT WET ---- Each line below will be a separate area, labelled with the first name in the line. The other names are considered aliases. As before, there will also be areas labeled "uninhabited" or "unknown", and Antarctica will be points rather than areas. ---- Africa/Abidjan Africa/Accra Africa/Addis_Ababa Africa/Algiers Africa/Asmara Africa/Asmera Africa/Bamako Africa/Timbuktu Africa/Bangui Africa/Banjul Africa/Bissau Africa/Blantyre Africa/Brazzaville Africa/Bujumbura Africa/Cairo Egypt Africa/Casablanca Africa/Ceuta Africa/Conakry Africa/Dakar Africa/Dar_es_Salaam Africa/Djibouti Africa/Douala Africa/El_Aaiun Africa/Freetown Africa/Gaborone Africa/Harare Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Juba Africa/Kampala Africa/Khartoum Africa/Kigali Africa/Kinshasa Africa/Lagos Africa/Libreville Africa/Lome Africa/Luanda Africa/Lubumbashi Africa/Lusaka Africa/Malabo Africa/Maputo Africa/Maseru Africa/Mbabane Africa/Mogadishu Africa/Monrovia Africa/Nairobi Africa/Ndjamena Africa/Niamey Africa/Nouakchott Africa/Ouagadougou Africa/Porto-Novo Africa/Sao_Tome Africa/Tripoli Libya Africa/Tunis Africa/Windhoek America/Adak US/Aleutian America/Atka America/Anchorage US/Alaska America/Anguilla America/Antigua America/Araguaina America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires America/Buenos_Aires America/Argentina/Catamarca America/Catamarca America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia America/Argentina/Cordoba America/Cordoba America/Rosario America/Argentina/Jujuy America/Jujuy America/Argentina/La_Rioja America/Argentina/Mendoza America/Mendoza America/Argentina/Rio_Gallegos America/Argentina/Salta America/Argentina/San_Juan America/Argentina/San_Luis America/Argentina/Tucuman America/Argentina/Ushuaia America/Aruba America/Asuncion America/Atikokan America/Bahia America/Bahia_Banderas America/Barbados America/Belem America/Belize America/Blanc-Sablon America/Boa_Vista America/Bogota America/Boise America/Cambridge_Bay America/Campo_Grande America/Cancun America/Caracas America/Cayenne America/Cayman America/Chicago US/Central America/Chihuahua America/Coral_Harbour America/Costa_Rica America/Creston America/Cuiaba America/Curacao America/Danmarkshavn America/Dawson America/Dawson_Creek America/Denver Navajo US/Mountain America/Shiprock America/Detroit US/Michigan America/Dominica America/Edmonton Canada/Mountain America/Eirunepe America/El_Salvador America/Fortaleza America/Glace_Bay America/Godthab America/Goose_Bay America/Grand_Turk America/Grenada America/Guadeloupe America/Guatemala America/Guayaquil America/Guyana America/Halifax Canada/Atlantic America/Havana Cuba America/Hermosillo America/Indiana/Indianapolis US/East-Indiana America/Fort_Wayne America/Indianapolis America/Indiana/Knox US/Indiana-Starke America/Knox_IN America/Indiana/Marengo America/Indiana/Petersburg America/Indiana/Tell_City America/Indiana/Vevay America/Indiana/Vincennes America/Indiana/Winamac America/Inuvik America/Iqaluit America/Jamaica Jamaica America/Juneau America/Kentucky/Louisville America/Louisville America/Kentucky/Monticello America/Kralendijk America/La_Paz America/Lima America/Los_Angeles US/Pacific US/Pacific-New America/Lower_Princes America/Maceio America/Managua America/Manaus Brazil/West America/Marigot America/Martinique America/Matamoros America/Mazatlan Mexico/BajaSur America/Menominee America/Merida America/Metlakatla America/Mexico_City Mexico/General America/Miquelon America/Moncton America/Monterrey America/Montevideo America/Montreal America/Montserrat America/Nassau America/New_York US/Eastern America/Nipigon America/Nome America/Noronha Brazil/DeNoronha America/North_Dakota/Beulah America/North_Dakota/Center America/North_Dakota/New_Salem America/Ojinaga America/Panama America/Pangnirtung America/Paramaribo America/Phoenix US/Arizona America/Port-au-Prince America/Port_of_Spain America/Porto_Velho America/Puerto_Rico America/Rainy_River America/Rankin_Inlet America/Recife America/Regina Canada/East-Saskatchewan Canada/Saskatchewan America/Resolute America/Rio_Branco Brazil/Acre America/Porto_Acre America/Santa_Isabel America/Santarem America/Santiago Chile/Continental America/Santo_Domingo America/Sao_Paulo Brazil/East America/Scoresbysund America/Sitka America/St_Barthelemy America/St_Johns Canada/Newfoundland America/St_Kitts America/St_Lucia America/St_Thomas America/St_Vincent America/Swift_Current America/Tegucigalpa America/Thule America/Thunder_Bay America/Tijuana Mexico/BajaNorte America/Ensenada America/Toronto Canada/Eastern America/Tortola America/Vancouver Canada/Pacific America/Virgin America/Whitehorse Canada/Yukon America/Winnipeg Canada/Central America/Yakutat America/Yellowknife Antarctica/Casey Antarctica/Davis Antarctica/DumontDUrville Antarctica/Macquarie Antarctica/Mawson Antarctica/McMurdo Antarctica/Palmer Antarctica/Rothera Antarctica/South_Pole Antarctica/Syowa Antarctica/Troll Antarctica/Vostok Arctic/Longyearbyen Asia/Aden Asia/Almaty Asia/Amman Asia/Anadyr Asia/Aqtau Asia/Aqtobe Asia/Ashgabat Asia/Ashkhabad Asia/Baghdad Asia/Bahrain Asia/Baku Asia/Bangkok Asia/Beirut Asia/Bishkek Asia/Brunei Asia/Chita Asia/Choibalsan Asia/Chongqing Asia/Chungking Asia/Colombo Asia/Damascus Asia/Dhaka Asia/Dacca Asia/Dili Asia/Dubai Asia/Dushanbe Asia/Gaza Asia/Harbin Asia/Hebron Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh Asia/Hong_Kong HongKong Asia/Hovd Asia/Irkutsk Asia/Jakarta Asia/Jayapura Asia/Jerusalem Asia/Tel_Aviv Israel Asia/Kabul Asia/Kamchatka Asia/Karachi Asia/Kashgar Asia/Kathmandu Asia/Katmandu Asia/Khandyga Asia/Kolkata Asia/Calcutta Asia/Krasnoyarsk Asia/Kuala_Lumpur Asia/Kuching Asia/Kuwait Asia/Macau Asia/Macao Asia/Magadan Asia/Makassar Asia/Ujung_Pandang Asia/Manila Asia/Muscat Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia Asia/Novokuznetsk Asia/Novosibirsk Asia/Omsk Asia/Oral Asia/Phnom_Penh Asia/Pontianak Asia/Pyongyang Asia/Qatar Asia/Qyzylorda Asia/Rangoon Asia/Riyadh Asia/Saigon Asia/Sakhalin Asia/Samarkand Asia/Seoul ROK Asia/Shanghai PRC Asia/Singapore Singapore Asia/Srednekolymsk Asia/Taipei ROC Asia/Tashkent Asia/Tbilisi Asia/Tehran Iran Asia/Thimphu Asia/Thimbu Asia/Tokyo Japan Asia/Ulaanbaatar Asia/Ulan_Bator Asia/Urumqi Asia/Ust-Nera Asia/Vientiane Asia/Vladivostok Asia/Yakutsk Asia/Yekaterinburg Asia/Yerevan Atlantic/Azores Atlantic/Bermuda Atlantic/Canary Atlantic/Cape_Verde Atlantic/Faroe Atlantic/Faeroe Atlantic/Jan_Mayen Atlantic/Madeira Atlantic/Reykjavik Iceland Atlantic/South_Georgia Atlantic/St_Helena Atlantic/Stanley Australia/Adelaide Australia/South Australia/Brisbane Australia/Queensland Australia/Broken_Hill Australia/Yancowinna Australia/Currie Australia/Darwin Australia/North Australia/Eucla Australia/Hobart Australia/Tasmania Australia/Lindeman Australia/Lord_Howe Australia/LHI Australia/Melbourne Australia/Victoria Australia/Perth Australia/West Australia/Sydney Australia/ACT Australia/Canberra Australia/NSW Europe/Amsterdam Europe/Andorra Europe/Athens Europe/Belgrade Europe/Berlin Europe/Bratislava Europe/Brussels Europe/Bucharest Europe/Budapest Europe/Busingen Europe/Chisinau Europe/Tiraspol Europe/Copenhagen Europe/Dublin Eire Europe/Gibraltar Europe/Guernsey Europe/Helsinki Europe/Isle_of_Man Europe/Istanbul Turkey Asia/Istanbul Europe/Jersey Europe/Kaliningrad Europe/Kiev Europe/Lisbon Portugal Europe/Ljubljana Europe/London GB GB-Eire Europe/Belfast Europe/Luxembourg Europe/Madrid Europe/Malta Europe/Mariehamn Europe/Minsk Europe/Monaco Europe/Moscow W-SU Europe/Oslo Europe/Paris Europe/Podgorica Europe/Prague Europe/Riga Europe/Rome Europe/Samara Europe/San_Marino Europe/Sarajevo Europe/Simferopol Europe/Skopje Europe/Sofia Europe/Stockholm Europe/Tallinn Europe/Tirane Europe/Uzhgorod Europe/Vaduz Europe/Vatican Europe/Vienna Europe/Vilnius Europe/Volgograd Europe/Warsaw Poland Europe/Zagreb Europe/Zaporozhye Europe/Zurich Indian/Antananarivo Indian/Chagos Indian/Christmas Indian/Cocos Indian/Comoro Indian/Kerguelen Indian/Mahe Indian/Maldives Indian/Mauritius Indian/Mayotte Indian/Reunion Pacific/Apia Pacific/Auckland NZ Pacific/Chatham NZ-CHAT Pacific/Chuuk Pacific/Truk Pacific/Easter Chile/EasterIsland Pacific/Efate Pacific/Enderbury Pacific/Fakaofo Pacific/Fiji Pacific/Funafuti Pacific/Galapagos Pacific/Gambier Pacific/Guadalcanal Pacific/Guam Pacific/Honolulu US/Hawaii Pacific/Johnston Pacific/Kiritimati Pacific/Kosrae Pacific/Kwajalein Kwajalein Pacific/Majuro Pacific/Marquesas Pacific/Midway Pacific/Nauru Pacific/Niue Pacific/Norfolk Pacific/Noumea Pacific/Pago_Pago US/Samoa Pacific/Palau Pacific/Pitcairn Pacific/Pohnpei Pacific/Ponape Pacific/Port_Moresby Pacific/Rarotonga Pacific/Saipan Pacific/Samoa Pacific/Tahiti Pacific/Tarawa Pacific/Tongatapu Pacific/Wake Pacific/Wallis Pacific/Yap ----