<<On Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:36:12 +0100, ohnielse@fysik.dtu.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen) said:
The naming "America" is politically incorrect. Greenland is a part of Denmark, but has had home rule for 10 or 11 years.
That is irrelevant. Greenland is an island off the coast of North America, so that's the directory it goes in.
"Greenland/....". Furthermore, the town names that you give are Danish names.
As explained in the `africa' file's notes, the town names are the ones normally used by English speakers making English-language maps. It also explains the business about the continents, for that matter. For the same reason, `Europe/Copenhagen' is used, rather than `Europe/Kobenhavn' (if I remember the native spelling correctly...).
From africa:
# So I renamed the Zones to have the form AREA/LOCATION, where # AREA is the name of a continent or ocean, and # LOCATION is the name of a specific location within that region. # For example, the old zone name `Egypt' is now `Africa/Cairo'. [...] # Use traditional English spelling, e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Roma', and # prefer `Athens' to the true name (which uses Greek letters). # The Posix file name restrictions encourage this rule. [...] # We typically use traditional English time zone abbreviations, # and assume that applications translate them to other languages # as part of the normal localization process. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant