[tz] [PATCH] Replace Africa zones with links when that doesn't lose useful info.

Derick Rethans tz at derickrethans.nl
Thu Jul 10 15:46:17 UTC 2014


On Wed, 9 Jul 2014, Paul Eggert wrote:

> * africa (Africa/Luanda, Africa/Porto-Novo, Africa/Gaborone)
> (Africa/Ouagadougou, Africa/Bujumbura, Africa/Douala, Africa/Bangui)
> (Indian/Comoro, Africa/Kinshasa, Africa/Lubumbashi, Africa/Brazzaville)
> (Africa/Djibouti, Africa/Malabo, Africa/Asmara, Africa/Addis_Ababa)
> (Africa/Libreville, Africa/Banjul, Africa/Accra, Africa/Conakry)
> (Africa/Maseru, Indian/Antananarivo, Africa/Blantyre, Africa/Bamako)
> (Africa/Nouakchott, Indian/Mayotte, Africa/Maputo, Africa/Niamey)
> (Africa/Kigali, Atlantic/St_Helena, Africa/Sao_Tome, Africa/Dakar)
> (Africa/Freetown, Africa/Mogadishu, Africa/Mbabane, Africa/Dar_es_Salaam)
> (Africa/Lome, Africa/Kampala, Africa/Lusaka, Africa/Harare):
> * antarctica (Antarctica/Syowa):
> Remove zone, replacing each with a link to a region that has had
> the same UTC offset since 1970.

Please keep this data stable and do *not* make this change. You can not 
just replace a region's data with another *just* because all the data 
since 1970 was the same. It removes data from before 1970 that is 
currectly (more) correct.

>  # Malawi
> -# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
> -Zone	Africa/Blantyre	2:20:00 -	LMT	1903 Mar
> -			2:00	-	CAT
> +# See Africa/Johannesburg.

Malawi and Johannesburg are not even close! And now both will have LMT 
for Johannesburg.

cheers,
Derick



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