Jonathan Lennox <lennox@cnr.cs.columbia.edu> writes:
I wonder if it would be a good idea to separate the old-style names (US/Eastern, etc.) from compatibility versions of old Area/Location names. It seems like FreeBSD and similar systems would in general want to have the latter even if not the former.
It's not entirely clear which is which for Australian names like "Australia/Canberra". However, here's a little awk script that you can apply to the "backwards" file if you want just the old Area/Location names. BEGIN { area["Africa"] = 1; area["America"] = 1; area["Antarctica"] = 1 area["Arctic"] = 1; area["Asia"] = 1; area["Atlantic"] = 1 area["Etc"] = 1; area["Europe"] = 1 area["Indian"] = 1; area["Pacific"] = 1 # Australia is special; it's old-style names (I think). } /^Link/ && area[substr($3, 1, index($3, "/") - 1)]