[tz] Dropping iso3166.tab

Petr Machata pmachata at redhat.com
Tue May 21 14:31:56 UTC 2013


Kevin Lyda <kevin at ie.suberic.net> writes:

> Say that Floofy (fl) and Fnord (fn) claim ownership of the large city
> of Fubar. I don't see anything wrong with putting Fubar in fl and fn.
> This way people in Floofy and Fnord see the city they expect to be
> there. And at the end of the day that's what tzinfo is for.

I can't imagine this would prevent anyone from disputing whether or not
a given city in fact should or should not be part of, say, Floofy.
Delegating our decisions to UN or other organization would shift the
forum for arguing elsewhere, which presumably is mr. Eggert's
motivation.

Thanks,
PM


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