Theory change to reinstate reference to ISO-3166 Use ISO-3166 as a guide for when a name should exist Countries are not specified and nothing is mandated -------------------------- https://github.com/jodastephen/tz/commit/e6199cc2616e938efb9422b263bd09da702... This patch reinstates the link to ISO-3166 in a softer way. In my opinion, the original removal (of something present for 16 years) did not have consensus and should have been reverted. However, I offer this patch as a possible middle ground. Stephen -------------------------- @@ -316,6 +316,8 @@ in decreasing order of importance: 'America/New_York' precludes 'America/New_York/Bronx'. Uninhabited regions like the North Pole and Bouvet Island do not need locations, since local time is not defined there. + Use ISO-3166 as a guide to ensuring time zone name coverage. + There should typically be at least one name per ISO-3166 code. If all the clocks in a region have agreed since 1970, don't bother to include more than one location even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970.