On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 5:43 PM, Tobias Conradi <mail.2012@tobiasconradi.com> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:13 PM, Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> wrote:
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Tobias Conradi <mail.2012@tobiasconradi.com> wrote:
What is the reason to have Macquarie Island as AQ Antartica in the IANA time zone database?
Macquarie Island is politically Australian territory, but geographically on the Antarctic continent.
Pacific Ocean, between NZ and AQ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Island "Macquarie Island lies in the southwest corner of the Pacific Ocean, about half-way between New Zealand and Antarctica, at 54°30S, 158°57E."
And I think consensus is that it sits on Antarctic continent. There are no ISO country codes for the oceans, so the choice is political allegiance (AU) or geographic location (AQ).
I don't know if the 'ISO 3166 2-character country code' zone.tab refers to is supposed to reference the political or geographic code,
I don't know why that field should be used differently and am not aware of other deviations from the ISO standard.
Ok, the ISO 3166-1 list uses the "south of 60°" definition. I think you are right and AU would be correct. Continental borders seem to be fuzzy things, and the timezone can straddle them like Europe/Istanbul. -- Stuart Bishop <stuart@stuartbishop.net> http://www.stuartbishop.net/