zone.tab corrections

Andy McDonald andy_tz at stemhaus.com
Thu May 24 04:33:13 UTC 2007


There seem to be a few minor errors in zone.tab (2007f and earlier):

America/Cambridge_Bay:
zone.tab latitude/longitude is incorrect, according to
http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/meds/Prog_Nat/benchmark/single_station2_e.asp?T1=6240,
which gives +6907-10504, and my own experiments with Google Earth. Also
zone.tab comments should be 'Mountain Time - west Nunavut' rather than
'Central Time - west Nunavut'

Antarctica/DumontDUrville:
The comment should very probably read 'Dumont d'Urville Station', rather
than 'Dumont d'Urville Base', which seems to be a mis-translation of the
French 'Base Dumont d'Urville'. See for example
http://pdf.comnap.aq/comnap/comnap.nsf/P/StationsByName/FRdumo

Pacific/Johnston:
latitude/longitude is incorrect. The CIA seems to have it much closer
with +1645-16931
(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/um.html)

America/Aruba:
latitude/longitude is incorrect. The CIA seems to have it much closer
with +1230-06958
(https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/aa.html)
- looks like the current +1230-06858 is a typo.

Europe/London: (!)
latitude/longitude is incorrect - the current value is somewhere in the
neighbourhood of Syon House in South-west London
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syon_House). Suggestions for a better
value welcome.

Ukrainian time zones Europe/Kiev, Europe/Uzhgorod and Europe/Zaporozhye:
These might better be named Europe/Kyiv, Europe/Uzhhorod and
Europe/Zaporizhia, being transliterations of the Ukrainian - rather than
Russian - place-names. Similarly, the comment for Europe/Zaporozhye
should perhaps be 'Zaporizhia, E Luhansk', rather than 'Zaporozh'ye, E
Lugansk'. See for example http://www.uazone.net/Kiev_Kyiv.html and
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=2588280. I'm sure I could
rustle up references for the other names if pressed.

Andy
http://www.stemhaus.com/firefox/foxclocks/



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