On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 11:34 AM, Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> wrote:
The tz database doesn't provide a mapping from country codes to timezones, zone.tab maps tz zones to countries.
tzcode2012b/Theory says: "Use ISO 3166 (see the file iso3166.tab) to help decide whether something is a country." tzdata2012c\iso3166.tab says HM Heard Island & McDonald Islands tzcode2012b/Theory also says: "However, uninhabited ISO 3166 regions like Bouvet Island do not need locations, since local time is not defined there." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_Island_and_McDonald_Islands says Population 0 (as of 1 January 2011) I don't know whether tzcode2012b/Theory is correct in claiming that local time is not defined in uninhabited "ISO 3166 regions". -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com/