From b7ca25754cf24991be6c5944b8a5e386b6651c2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:30:54 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED] Prefer America/Vancouver to other BC in *.tab

Problem reported by Brian Inglis in:
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/message/I7DUUE566FGO6FIHGQAU4K6Q6TQAAO34/
* zone.tab, zone1970.tab, zonenow.tab (America/Vancouver):
Put this first among BC entries, as that causes tzselect to list
it first among BC, which is better nowadays.  List its comment as
"MST - BC (most areas)".
---
 zone.tab     | 2 +-
 zone1970.tab | 2 +-
 zonenow.tab  | 2 +-
 3 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/zone.tab b/zone.tab
index 80037dcd..88093b1d 100644
--- a/zone.tab
+++ b/zone.tab
@@ -124,13 +124,13 @@ CA	+5017-10750	America/Swift_Current	CST - SK (midwest)
 CA	+5333-11328	America/Edmonton	Mountain - AB, BC(E), NT(E), SK(W)
 CA	+690650-1050310	America/Cambridge_Bay	Mountain - NU (west)
 CA	+682059-1334300	America/Inuvik	Mountain - NT (west)
+CA	+4916-12307	America/Vancouver	MST - BC (most areas)
 CA	+4906-11631	America/Creston	MST - BC (Creston)
 CA	+4931-11546	America/Cranbrook	MST - BC (E Kootenay)
 CA	+5546-12014	America/Dawson_Creek	MST - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John)
 CA	+5848-12242	America/Fort_Nelson	MST - BC (Ft Nelson)
 CA	+6043-13503	America/Whitehorse	MST - Yukon (east)
 CA	+6404-13925	America/Dawson	MST - Yukon (west)
-CA	+4916-12307	America/Vancouver	British Columbia (most areas)
 CC	-1210+09655	Indian/Cocos
 CD	-0418+01518	Africa/Kinshasa	Dem. Rep. of Congo (west)
 CD	-1140+02728	Africa/Lubumbashi	Dem. Rep. of Congo (east)
diff --git a/zone1970.tab b/zone1970.tab
index d70a46c7..ee7ba41a 100644
--- a/zone1970.tab
+++ b/zone1970.tab
@@ -115,12 +115,12 @@ CA	+5017-10750	America/Swift_Current	CST - SK (midwest)
 CA	+5333-11328	America/Edmonton	Mountain - AB, BC(E), NT(E), SK(W)
 CA	+690650-1050310	America/Cambridge_Bay	Mountain - NU (west)
 CA	+682059-1334300	America/Inuvik	Mountain - NT (west)
+CA	+4916-12307	America/Vancouver	MST - BC (most areas)
 CA	+4931-11546	America/Cranbrook	MST - BC (E Kootenay)
 CA	+5546-12014	America/Dawson_Creek	MST - BC (Dawson Cr, Ft St John)
 CA	+5848-12242	America/Fort_Nelson	MST - BC (Ft Nelson)
 CA	+6043-13503	America/Whitehorse	MST - Yukon (east)
 CA	+6404-13925	America/Dawson	MST - Yukon (west)
-CA	+4916-12307	America/Vancouver	British Columbia (most areas)
 CH,DE,LI	+4723+00832	Europe/Zurich	Büsingen
 CI,BF,GH,GM,GN,IS,ML,MR,SH,SL,SN,TG	+0519-00402	Africa/Abidjan
 CK	-2114-15946	Pacific/Rarotonga
diff --git a/zonenow.tab b/zonenow.tab
index 43b7bfc3..ac3ce71a 100644
--- a/zonenow.tab
+++ b/zonenow.tab
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ XX	-2504-13005	Pacific/Pitcairn	Pitcairn
 XX	+340308-1181434	America/Los_Angeles	Pacific (PST/PDT) - US & Canada; Mexico near US border
 #
 # -08/-07 - PST/PDT (North America DST) until 2026-11-01 02:00; then MST
-XX	+4916-12307	America/Vancouver	British Columbia (most areas)
+XX	+4916-12307	America/Vancouver	MST - BC (most areas)
 #
 # -07 - MST
 XX	+332654-1120424	America/Phoenix	Mountain Standard (MST) - Arizona; western Mexico; Yukon
-- 
2.51.0

