Cyprus Timezone Issue

[Andy Lipscomb]

Bringing up Turkey raises another question: is it the country or the city that governs which continent to use? (This since Turkey is primarily, by land area, in Asia, but Istanbul lies within its European portion.)

The precedent of Pacific/Honolulu, and perhaps others, suggests that it is the location of the city that matters.

J Andrew Lipscomb
 
From: mark.edward.davis at gmail.com [mailto:mark.edward.davis at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Mark Davis
Sent: Monday 27 April 2009 20:12
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov; glafkos at gmail.com
Subject: Re: Cyprus Timezone Issue

The simplest policy would be to follow the UN for locations where there is any doubt, and add aliases as needed for convenience. The UN puts Cyprus and Turkey in Asia: see http://unstats.un.org/unsd/methods/m49/m49regin.htm

Mark

On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 13:48, Paul Schauble <Paul.Schauble at ticketmaster.com> wrote:
I guess the question is whether the grouping for tz purposes is
geographic or political.

When Turkey joins the EU, will it move to the Europe tz file?

  ++PLS

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Jerabek [mailto:martin.jerabek at isis-papyrus.com]
Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2009 11:29 PM
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Cc: glafkos at gmail.com
Subject: Re: Cyprus Timezone Issue

On 27.04.2009 03:04, Gwillim Law wrote:
> This issue was discussed on the tz mailing list in September 2000, and
again
> in May 2004. The resolution in 2000 was to add Europe/Nicosia as an
alias
> for Asia/Nicosia. The accompanying comment reads, "for various reasons
many
> users expect to find [Cyprus] under Europe." When the issue was
discussed
> before, most reference sources placed Cyprus in Asia.
>

Cyprus is a member of the European Union (since 2004), and its official
currency is the Euro, so I think it is reasonable for people to expect
to find Cyprus under Europe.

Regards
Martin Jerabek
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