new ISO 3166-1 entries
I recently read ISO 3166-1 Newsletter No. V-11 (2006-03-29) and noticed three new ISO 3166-1 entries: GUERNSEY; GG ISLE OF MAN;IM JERSEY;JE I found this rule in the Theory file: Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country. One such location is enough. Use ISO 3166 (see the file iso3166.tab) to help decide whether something is a country. However, uninhabited ISO 3166 regions like Bouvet Island do not need locations, since local time is not defined there. For tzdata, should all populated ISO 3166 regions be included? Does this mean that three new TZ zone descriptions should be added to zone.tab and appropriate data files? Or, should Europe/London be used instead? Should iso3166.tab be updated? Chuck
Chuck Soper <chucks2@veladg.com> writes:
Does this mean that three new TZ zone descriptions should be added to zone.tab and appropriate data files?
I suppose so. We'll have more of a real problem with Montenegro, assuming the split with Serbia goes through.
Or, should Europe/London be used instead?
Since the clocks in question have all agreed since 1970, we can use Link entries to link Europe/London to Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, and Europe/Isle_of_Man. This is what we already did for Europe/Mariehamn and the Aaland Islands (linking it from Europe/Helsinki), and is what we probably will do for Europe/Podgorica and Montenegro (linking it from Europe/Belgrade). Thanks for the heads-up.
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