On 2021-06-09 09:29, Stephen Colebourne via tz wrote:
Look at it this way, your patch (and probably previous ones) are making a political statement of the kind you say you don't want. The file `europe` contains full commentary for Germany: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/europe#L1397-L1452 yet Sweden and Norway get just 2 lines: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/main/europe#L3383-L3384 with the actual commentary relegated to the semi-trash can of `backzone`.Where is the fairness in that? I'd also point out that the file is structured by country, which makes a mockery of the idea that timezones are not connected to countries.
I think you treat the tzdb data a bit harsh. tzdb uses political countries only internally, as regions of the surface of the Earth. This is a matter of practicality, not of concept. No "political statements" are made, none are contained in the TZif files for users. And "backzone/" should be considered as a repository for historical data that is (currently) not needed by the majority of tzdb users. Some of these data is carefully researched by a multitude of people, and is available nowhere else. And there are a few users of these data! Comments are located close to the the "Zone" and "Rule" data they concern (except for the NOTEs in australasia) -- I find that fair. Michael Deckers.