Re: [tz] Proposed patch - Theory notes for backward file

Stephen Colebourne wrote:

Right now we have three things: - Zone entries - active Link entries, for locations that happen to have the entire local time history of another zone - inactive Link entries, that used to have meaning but are no longer favoured (the backward file)

It's not that simple. We also have aliases in the non-backward files. Two examples are 'Europe/Nicosia' and 'GMT'. I don't see why these names should be considered canonical; although they are active link entries, they are not for differing locations.