Andy McDonald <andy_tz@stemhaus.com> writes:
There seem to be a few minor errors in zone.tab (2007f and earlier):
America/Cambridge_Bay: zone.tab latitude/longitude is incorrect, according to http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Nat/benchmark/single_station2_e..., which gives +6907-10504, and my own experiments with Google Earth. Also zone.tab comments should be 'Mountain Time - west Nunavut' rather than 'Central Time - west Nunavut'
Thanks, I'll change it to: CA +690650-1050310 America/Cambridge_Bay Mountain Time - west Nunavut as per the followup discussion.
Antarctica/DumontDUrville: The comment should very probably read 'Dumont d'Urville Station', rather than 'Dumont d'Urville Base',
Pacific/Johnston: latitude/longitude is incorrect. The CIA seems to have it much closer with +1645-16931
America/Aruba: latitude/longitude is incorrect. The CIA seems to have it much closer with +1230-06958
Thanks, I'll propagate these fixes too.
Europe/London: (!) latitude/longitude is incorrect - the current value is somewhere in the neighbourhood of Syon House in South-west London (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syon_House). Suggestions for a better value welcome.
If the BBC says the centre of London is the modern Charing Cross, that's good enough for me. I assume the following will do? GB +513030-0000731 Europe/London The following line in "Europe" shouldn't change, though: Zone Europe/London -0:01:15 - LMT 1847 Dec 1 0:00s since that "-0:01:15" applies to the obelisk in question.
Ukrainian time zones Europe/Kiev, Europe/Uzhgorod and Europe/Zaporozhye: These might better be named Europe/Kyiv, Europe/Uzhhorod and Europe/Zaporizhia, being transliterations of the Ukrainian - rather than Russian - place-names.
The tz database prefers the most common English spelling for the place names in question; this is why we use "Moscow" rather than "Moskva", for example. "Kiev" is more popular than "Kyiv" in English. The other two names are similar. If the English spellings change (which is what happened with Mongolian and Kazakh names) we can revisit this. In the meantime, I can add some comments about this, and change the zone.tab entry to look like the following (a similar solution is already in place for Greenland locations): UA +4750+03510 Europe/Zaporozhye Zaporozh'ye, E Lugansk / Zaporizhia, E Luhansk