I examined the changes this makes using my tzdiff tool: https://github.com/jodastephen/tzdiff/commit/bbeef1aae8797ecdf28202b751fdd01... To me, this seems like an awful change. As can be seen in the link, many places (eg Anguilla, Antigua and Aruba) are now sharing time-zone history, and that history is **from some other zone**. That seems completely unacceptable. While I understand the motivation to remove the burden of pre-1970, that cannot come at the cost of giving a place the history of somewhere completely different. I ask that this change is completely reverted. Stephen On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 03:00, Paul Eggert via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote:
On 5/22/21 11:17 AM, Tim Parenti wrote:
I'm inclined to agree here. In particular, the latter group (things like America/La_Paz -> Etc/GMT+4) seems to encourage things or behaviors which historically cause confusion, especially for novices:
Yes, it appears that I may have gone a bit too far in consolidating Etc/* names with other names. I undid that part of the change by installing the attached followup patch (first patch).