May 17, 2004
3:39 p.m.
From: "Oscar van Vlijmen" <ovv@hetnet.nl>
asia file: Cyprus is now (May 01, 2004) part of the European Union. In spite of the interesting remarks for Cyprus in the tz data file, the Cyprus entry should be in the europe file.
The tz mailing list had a discussion on this same subject in September, 2000. Most of the evidence produced at that time indicated that Cyprus is part of Asia. Personally, I don't care which continent it's in; the decision is clearly arbitrary (although there may be a political motivation). I just don't like changing things unless we have to. Yours, Gwillim Law