[tz] Dropping iso3166.tab

Benjamin Kerensa bkerensa at ubuntu.com
Tue May 21 06:37:08 UTC 2013


On 05/20/13 22:27, Paul Eggert wrote:
> I have been thinking of proposing to drop iso3166.tab from the
> tz distribution, and to drop all uses of country codes.
> This would help simplify maintenance, as it would mean
> that the database would be unaffected by political
> issues such as whether Kosovo is a country, what country
> Jerusalem is in, what country Taipei is in, etc.  The idea
> is to simplify the database to help us focus on our charter
> (namely, civil time) and to be less distracted by political
> issues that do not affect the clocks.
>
> As part of this change, the first column of zone.tab
> would change from its current role (a country code)
> to be just a comment.
>
> I was thinking of changing the comment to be just "--",
> for every entry in zone.tab.   How would this change
> affect FreeBSD's use of zone.tab?

I'm unsure how this might affect FreeBSD but notably some Linux
Distros including Ubuntu use
this data and it could possibly impact Ubuntu's ubiquity installer.

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