[tz] [PATCH 4/4] yellow flags

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Wed Aug 14 21:10:58 UTC 2013


Paul Eggert wrote:
>> You also need to realise that the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 codes are*not*
>> >just for countries anyway. Wikipedia states: "represent countries,
>> >dependent territories, and special areas of geographical interest." —
> Thanks, although that's not enough to insulate us from
> politics (it certainly wasn't last time ...), it can't hurt
> to mention this in zone.tab and in iso3166.tab, so I added
> that to the commentary while reverting the changes.

And certainly London is not in the middle of the Irish Sea or off the coast of 
France ;)
Actually having multiple results for 'Europe/London' was simply wrong even if 
'currently' they are the same timezone. For personally reasons I use 
Europe/Isle_of_Man and would simply revert that if ever it goes away again.

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