Was America/Aruba obsoleted and replaced
Hello IANA, UPS has an interface agreement with IANA for Time Zone Information. We are testing other requirements and we came across a few concerns. I am working on researching and fixing some time zone concerns for our UPS properties in a few of the data bases I support. I have a few questions: When was the Time Zone Name (TznGeoRefTe) for America/Aruba obsoleted? What is the updated Time Zone Name (TznGeoRefTe) which replaced America/Aruba? When was this notified to your user community? Are all countries identified in IANA with a Time Zone Name (TznGeoRefTe)? I was researching Aruba (AW) and St. Martin (SX), the outcome resulted in an empty result set. These questions are a follow-up, to the empty result set, received from queries. Maybe our link to IANA needs to be refreshed or possible the file pulled from IANA. Thank you for your cooperation. Kellie Zimmermann UPS 201-828-7180 Corporate Reference Data
On 09/29/2015 06:50 AM, kzimmermann@ups.com wrote:
When was theTime Zone Name (TznGeoRefTe) for America/Aruba obsoleted?
Sorry, I don't know what a TznGeoRefTe is; that notion is not part of tzdata. I expect the notion comes from some downstream use of tzdata, and perhaps you could ask whoever is in charge of that downstream version what happened to Aruba in their downstream copy. In tzdata America/Aruba is still there, and is an alias for America/Curacao. This alias was created in tzdata release 2013e dated 2013-09-19 23:50:04 -0700. Formerly America/Aruba was a separate zone, but its data were unreliable and out of scope for tzdata so it was turned into a link. Notification for the change is in the NEWS file distributed as part of tzdata.
Are all countries identified in IANA with a Time Zone Name (TznGeoRefTe)?
No, not every country with a two-letter country code has a time zone identifier. For example, Bouvet Island (country code BV) has no time zone identifier, as it's uninhabited. Although we formerly tried to give every country an identifier, counterexamples like Bouvet and political disputes about what constitutes a "country" have put something of a damper on that idea, and the topic is controversial.
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