Jake Knoppers wrote
At present the "understood" rule is that "time zone entities" are referenced as member of only one "aggregate" entity from a time zone perspective. One has to keeping mind the cascade and management aspects associated with "classifying"a time zone entity such as Cyprus with more that one aggregate entities. Irrespective of what Cyprus or "tz" participants think Cyprus is part of, the larger issue is whether a "tz time zone entity" can be a member of more than one aggregate (e.g.Europe, Asia,etc.).
This issue is already decided, it seems. From current distribution: # @(#)asia 7.56 ... # See the `europe' file for Russia and Turkey in Asia. # @(#)europe 7.73 ... Link Europe/Istanbul Asia/Istanbul # Istanbul is in both continents. Then, I do not see where is the issue to add a new line for Cyprus, for example like the attached patch (I have no strict feelings on the comment ;-)). And yes, I have perfectly in mind a number of issues, and even hard problems, that are created with the mere existence of links in the tz database. But the addition of a new line to an already long list is not increasing significantly the problem here. Antoine P.S. Apologizes to Jake to which I sent earlier privately this message which is obviously destined to the whole list. *** europe Thu Aug 10 06:31:08 2000 --- europe.txt Thu Sep 14 14:29:48 2000 *************** *** 45,50 **** --- 45,52 ---- # 2:00 EET EEST Eastern Europe # 3:00 MSK MSD Moscow # + # See the `asia' file for Cyprus. + # # A reliable and entertaining source about time zones, especially in Britain, # Derek Howse, Greenwich time and longitude, Philip Wilson Publishers (1997). *** asia Thu Aug 10 06:31:36 2000 --- asia.txt Thu Sep 14 14:29:10 2000 *************** *** 302,307 **** --- 302,309 ---- 2:00 EUAsia EE%sT # IATA SSIM (1998-09) has Cyprus using EU rules for the first time. + Link Asia/Nicosia Europe/Nicosia # Cyprus would like to be a European coutry. + # Georgia # From Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> (1994-11-19): # Today's _Economist_ (p 60) reports that Georgia moved its clocks forward