Re: [tz] Tzdata for Texas

On 9/12/19 9:06 PM, Ron Sparks wrote:

I know that Chicago has been the Central Time Zone marker as far back as I can remember (at least 1970).

tzdb isn't quite *that* old. That being said, Houston's clocks have agreed with Chicago's since 1970 and Chicago is larger than Houston, so Chicago is the representative for that timezone. For more about the guidelines, please see: https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#naming