[tz] Missing entry for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands

[David Patte]

I also agree

On 2012-05-11 15:56, Paw Boel Nielsen wrote:
> I agree with Tobias a new zone for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands would be beneficial.
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>>> Maybe because Etc/GMT-5 is adequate?
>> Systems that are set to use "Etc/GMT-5" will not observe a change even if HM changes.
> Paw
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Conradi
> Sent: 11 May 2012 21:44
> To: tz at iana.org
> Subject: Re: [tz] Missing entry for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands
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> On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Ian Abbott<abbotti at mev.co.uk>  wrote:
>>> If so, why is HM not covered?
>> Maybe because Etc/GMT-5 is adequate?
> Systems that are set to use "Etc/GMT-5" will not observe a change even if HM changes.
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> I don't know whether HM observed UTC+5 during all the time since 1970.
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> That is an information the tzdb provides for many other ISO 3166-1 regions, but for HM it fails to do so.
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