[tz] Missing entry for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands

Mark Davis ☕ mark at macchiato.com
Fri May 11 21:54:10 UTC 2012


I also agree.

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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Patte <dpatte at relativedata.com>wrote:

> I also agree
>
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> On 2012-05-11 15:56, Paw Boel Nielsen wrote:
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>> I agree with Tobias a new zone for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands
>> would be beneficial.
>>
>>  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
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> I don't know whether HM observed UTC+5 during all the time since 1970.
>>
>> 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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>> Germany
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>> http://tobiasconradi.com/
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