FW: Jan Mayen in wrong zone
I'm (very belatedly) forwarding this message from Jonas Melian, who is not on the time zone mailing list. Those of you who are on the time zone mailing list should direct replies appropriately. --ado -----Original Message----- From: Jonas Melian [mailto:jonas@mailup.net] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:08 To: tz@lecserver.nci.nih.gov Subject: Jan Mayen in wrong zone Jan Mayen has been placed ('zone.tab' file) in the Atlantic zone but it's too in the Arctic [1] as Svalbard. Svalbard and Jan Mayen (SJ): Arctic/Longyearbyen, Svalbard Atlantic/Jan_Mayen, Jan Mayen [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Mayen
From: Jonas Melian [mailto:jonas@mailup.net] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:08
Jan Mayen has been placed ('zone.tab' file) in the Atlantic zone but it's too in the Arctic [1] as Svalbard.
Good catch. Come to think of it, this suggests that we should remove Atlantic/Jan_Mayen, since there's no particular reason to have duplicate entries Arctic/Longyearbyen and Arctic/Jan_Mayen: those entries would have the same time zone history, country code, and continent. (By "remove" I really mean "move to the 'backward' file", of course; we want to continue to support those dozen or so people who are stuck on Jan Mayen right now!)
El Tuesday 04 December 2007 08:36:30 escribió:
From: Jonas Melian [mailto:jonas@mailup.net] Sent: Friday, November 09, 2007 6:08
Jan Mayen has been placed ('zone.tab' file) in the Atlantic zone but it's too in the Arctic [1] as Svalbard.
Good catch. Come to think of it, this suggests that we should remove Atlantic/Jan_Mayen, since there's no particular reason to have duplicate entries Arctic/Longyearbyen and Arctic/Jan_Mayen: those entries would have the same time zone history, country code, and continent. (By "remove" I really mean "move to the 'backward' file", of course; we want to continue to support those dozen or so people who are stuck on Jan Mayen right now!)
I'm supposed that by that reason the maintenance Agency for ISO 3166 country codes [1] have combined the name of both islands as: SVALBARD AND JAN MAYEN That could be made too here and to have 'Arctic/Svalbard_and_Jan_Mayen'. [1] http://www.iso.org/iso/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/english_country_nam...
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