On Dec 4, 2017, at 8:16 PM, Brian Inglis <Brian.Inglis@SystematicSw.ab.ca> wrote:
On 2017-12-04 14:59, Guy Harris wrote:
Presumably "its lat/long" means "the latitude/longitude of (some point within) the city being used to give a name to the tzdb region".
The lat/long, that is already available as a semantic property in zone.tab,
Which is, presumably, the latitude/longitude of (some point within) the city being used to give a name to the tzdb region. (Just out of curiosity, how was that point chosen? The commentary says "principal location", but an arc second on the Earth's surface is about 20-30 meters, so there are a lot of degrees/minutes/seconds points inside the Big Apple, and even with arc minutes, which are about 1.2-1.8 km, Manhattan Island is more than one arc minute high. The Wikipedia cites the U.S. Gazetteer: https://www.census.gov/geo/maps-data/data/gazetteer.html as saying that New York is at 40°42′46″N 74°00′21″W; are we using sources such as that and its equivalents for other countries?)