Dear Sir, In your timezone data file for Europe you define: # -3:00 WGT+DST Western Greenland* # -2:00 MGT+DST Middle Greenland* # -1:00 EGT+DST Eastern Greenland* Zone America/Scoresbysund -1:29:00 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 -2:00 - MGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -2:00 M-Eur MGT%s 1981 Mar 29 -1:00 M-Eur EGT%s Zone America/Godthab -3:26:56 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 -3:00 - WGT 1980 Apr 6 2:00 -3:00 M-Eur WGT%s Zone America/Thule -4:35:08 - LMT 1916 Jul 28 -4:00 - AST The naming "America" is politically incorrect. Greenland is a part of Denmark, but has had home rule for 10 or 11 years. If anything, you would have to define the zone names as "Denmark/...." or perhaps "Greenland/....". Furthermore, the town names that you give are Danish names. Greenlanders would undoubtedly insist that the Greenland names be used, so perhaps better namings would be: America/Scoresbysund -> Greenland/Ittoqqortoormiit America/Godthab -> Greenland/Nuuk America/Thule -> Greenland/Dundas I don't know if the timezone names have been fixed by international convention, but the naming would appear controversial :-) With best regards, Dr. Ole H. Nielsen Technical University of Denmark % Ole Holm Nielsen % UNI-C, Building 304 % Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark % E-mail: Ole.H.Nielsen@uni-c.dk or Ole.H.Nielsen@fysik.dtu.dk % WWW URL: http://www.fysik.dtu.dk/persons/ohnielse.html % Telephone: (+45) 35 87 89 65
<<On Tue, 27 Feb 96 15:36:12 +0100, ohnielse@fysik.dtu.dk (Ole Holm Nielsen) said:
The naming "America" is politically incorrect. Greenland is a part of Denmark, but has had home rule for 10 or 11 years.
That is irrelevant. Greenland is an island off the coast of North America, so that's the directory it goes in.
"Greenland/....". Furthermore, the town names that you give are Danish names.
As explained in the `africa' file's notes, the town names are the ones normally used by English speakers making English-language maps. It also explains the business about the continents, for that matter. For the same reason, `Europe/Copenhagen' is used, rather than `Europe/Kobenhavn' (if I remember the native spelling correctly...).
From africa:
# So I renamed the Zones to have the form AREA/LOCATION, where # AREA is the name of a continent or ocean, and # LOCATION is the name of a specific location within that region. # For example, the old zone name `Egypt' is now `Africa/Cairo'. [...] # Use traditional English spelling, e.g. prefer `Rome' to `Roma', and # prefer `Athens' to the true name (which uses Greek letters). # The Posix file name restrictions encourage this rule. [...] # We typically use traditional English time zone abbreviations, # and assume that applications translate them to other languages # as part of the normal localization process. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | Shashish is simple, it's discreet, it's brief. ... wollman@lcs.mit.edu | Shashish is the bonding of hearts in spite of distance. Opinions not those of| It is a bond more powerful than absence. We like people MIT, LCS, ANA, or NSA| who like Shashish. - Claude McKenzie + Florent Vollant
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