Oscar van Vlijmen <ovv@hetnet.nl> writes:
Cyprus is now (May 01, 2004) part of the European Union. In spite of the interesting remarks for Cyprus in the tz data file, the Cyprus entry should be in the europe file.
This shouldn't matter one way or the other to tz users, since Asia/Nicosia and Europe/Nicosia are aliases. Personally I'm a traditionalist so I'd rather leave it be.
antarctica file: New Zealand: Rules are given, but no Zone information, so no actual time information.
The NZAQ rules are defined and used in the antarctica file, so I don't see a problem here. (There's a separate copy of the NZ rules here so that the antarctica file can stand alone.)
GMT is obsolete. UTC should be used.
Which specific uses of "GMT" are you objecting to here? Some instances of "GMT" are correct, e.g. in winter Europe/London users prefer the "date" command to output the string "GMT", not "UTC". By and large the tz database attempts to support common English-language usage, even if it's not strictly "correct". There's another problem I should mention at some point: Calcutta officially changed its name to Kolkata on 2001-01-01, so the name "Asia/Calcutta" will become obsolescent at some point. Altavista reports 589,792 hits for Calcutta and only 194,498 for Kolkata, so the name-change hasn't really "taken" yet. We have similar naming problems in Greenland and Vietnam so I suppose we can live with one more such problem for a while. There are virtues to having stable names, even if they're "wrong" by some official measure.