On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 7:09 PM, Antoine Leca <Antoine-TZ@leca-marti.org> wrote:
Tobias Conradi wrote on 2012-05-12 04:04:27 +0200:
Current: tzdata2012c/zone.tab only has: TF -492110+0701303 Indian/Kerguelen
Note: I couldn't find the rules for Kerguelen
The rules are in antartica (since "forever") even if the islands are ruled from Reunion which stands in africa file... Merci beaucoup.
Propose: TF -492110+0701303 Indian/Kerguelen most locations TF -464114+517561 Indian/Crozet Crozet Islands
Coordinates are for the center of the biggest island, Possession Island, which is the the Eastern group, which contains also the second biggest island. http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Crozet_Map.png
antartica file have slightly different coordinates (46°S 25' 51", 051°W 51'52") which are the ones for Alfred-Faure base, where most (all?) humans are.
So maybe a name for the zone that is closer to what the Theory file suggests ----cite----- Keep locations compact. Use cities or small islands, not countries or regions, --------------- is: Indian/Alfred-Faure
I have no information whether the clocks might have been different from the "natural" UTC+4 time zone (which extends up to 52°W 30') at any moment in the past (long-timers and archivists may record unclear and unchecked informations this about in 1986); so the correct move seems to create a new zone, perhaps along the attached changes (AFT is my invention, anything better will be fine with me; TFT, according to widespread use of "<ISO 3166-1 alpha-2>T"
I went with Indian/Alfred_Faure since, unlike Indian/Port_aux_Francais, it fits with the 14-character limit.)
WP is not consistent, article title is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Faure but in the article it is "Alfred-Faure" And http://www.geonames.org/maps/google_-46.432_51.862.html gives a) Base Alfred Faure ... scientific research base 0.04 km b) Port-Alfred ... locality 1.95 km -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/