On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Patte <dpatte@relativedata.com> wrote:

I also agree

On 2012-05-11 15:56, Paw Boel Nielsen wrote:

I agree with Tobias a new zone for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands would be beneficial.

Maybe because Etc/GMT-5 is adequate?

Systems that are set to use "Etc/GMT-5" will not observe a change even if HM changes.

Paw

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From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Conradi
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Subject: Re: [tz] Missing entry for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands

On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Ian Abbott<abbotti@mev.co.uk>  wrote:

If so, why is HM not covered?

Maybe because Etc/GMT-5 is adequate?

Systems that are set to use "Etc/GMT-5" will not observe a change even if HM changes.

I don't know whether HM observed UTC+5 during all the time since 1970.

That is an information the tzdb provides for many other ISO 3166-1 regions, but for HM it fails to do so.

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