proposed tz changes for Davis Station, Palestine, etc.

Paul Eggert eggert at twinsun.com
Mon May 25 07:22:33 UTC 1998


   Date: Mon, 25 May 1998 13:26:14 +1000
   From: Alex LIVINGSTON <alex at agsm.unsw.edu.au>

   In the australsia file, how about including Cocos (nearer to Christmas
   Island than Christmas Island is to Australia) and Norfolk (admittedly
   further from Australia than, say, New Caledonia, but still closer to
   Australia's east coast than Perth is) in the "Australian miscellany"
   section, since they belong to Australia?

Because they have their own ISO country codes.

Actually, consistency suggests that Christmas Island should be kept
seperate from Australian miscellany, as it has its own ISO country
code.  E.g. something like the following.  This doesn't change the
order of the data entries, just the commentary, which is probably why
the other coordinator didn't notice this discrepancy.

--- australasia	1998/05/24 07:28:25	1998.4.1.1
+++ australasia	1998/05/25 07:19:09	1998.4.1.2
@@ -159,7 +159,4 @@ Zone Australia/Lord_Howe 10:36:20 -	LMT	
 
 # Australian miscellany
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
-			7:00	-	CXT	# Christmas Island Time
 #
 # Ashmore Is, Cartier
@@ -179,4 +176,8 @@ Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895
 # no information
 
+# Christmas
+# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
+Zone Indian/Christmas	7:02:52 -	LMT	1895 Feb
+			7:00	-	CXT	# Christmas Island Time
 



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