[tz] [PROPOSED] Swaziland changed its name to Eswatini

Tim Parenti tim at timtimeonline.com
Wed Feb 20 01:39:38 UTC 2019


I initially wondered, from the patch context, why this ended up
*after* Ethiopia.
Then I saw that Eritrea and Ethiopia share commentary.  Proposed patch
attached which realphabetizes accordingly.

--
Tim Parenti


On Tue, 19 Feb 2019 at 18:32, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> This does not change time data, only a name field in iso3166.tab.
> * africa, backzone: Update comments accordingly.
> * iso3166.tab: Update SZ name.
> ---
>  africa      | 8 ++++----
>  backzone    | 2 +-
>  iso3166.tab | 6 +++---
>  3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/africa b/africa
> index 0a0f586..e4936e4 100644
> --- a/africa
> +++ b/africa
> @@ -374,6 +374,9 @@ Zone        Africa/Cairo    2:05:09 -       LMT
>  1900 Oct
>  # check the time. PRI's The World. 2015-01-30 15:15 -05.
>  #
> https://www.pri.org/stories/2015-01-30/if-you-have-meeting-ethiopia-you-better-double-check-time
>
> +# Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
> +# See Africa/Johannesburg.
> +
>  # Gabon
>  # See Africa/Lagos.
>
> @@ -1188,7 +1191,7 @@ Zone Africa/Johannesburg 1:52:00 -        LMT
>  1892 Feb 8
>                         1:30    -       SAST    1903 Mar
>                         2:00    SA      SAST
>  Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Maseru    # Lesotho
> -Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane    # Swaziland
> +Link Africa/Johannesburg Africa/Mbabane    # Eswatini
>  #
>  # Marion and Prince Edward Is
>  # scientific station since 1947
> @@ -1230,9 +1233,6 @@ Zone      Africa/Juba     2:06:28 -       LMT
>  1931
>                         2:00    Sudan   CA%sT   2000 Jan 15 12:00
>                         3:00    -       EAT
>
> -# Swaziland
> -# See Africa/Johannesburg.
> -
>  # Tanzania
>  # See Africa/Nairobi.
>
> diff --git a/backzone b/backzone
> index c464ce6..380c492 100644
> --- a/backzone
> +++ b/backzone
> @@ -204,7 +204,7 @@ Zone        Africa/Maseru   1:50:00 -       LMT
>  1903 Mar
>                         2:00    1:00    SAST    1944 Mar 19  2:00
>                         2:00    -       SAST
>
> -# Swaziland
> +# Eswatini (formerly Swaziland)
>  Zone   Africa/Mbabane  2:04:24 -       LMT     1903 Mar
>                         2:00    -       SAST
>
> diff --git a/iso3166.tab b/iso3166.tab
> index 98fb988..a4ff61a 100644
> --- a/iso3166.tab
> +++ b/iso3166.tab
> @@ -9,8 +9,8 @@
>  # All text uses UTF-8 encoding.  The columns of the table are as follows:
>  #
>  # 1.  ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, current as of
> -#     ISO 3166-1 N905 (2016-11-15).  See: Updates on ISO 3166-1
> -#     http://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/Open/16944257
> +#     ISO 3166-1 N976 (2018-11-06).  See: Updates on ISO 3166-1
> +#     https://isotc.iso.org/livelink/livelink/Open/16944257
>  # 2.  The usual English name for the coded region,
>  #     chosen so that alphabetic sorting of subsets produces helpful lists.
>  #     This is not the same as the English name in the ISO 3166 tables.
> @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ ST  Sao Tome & Principe
>  SV     El Salvador
>  SX     St Maarten (Dutch)
>  SY     Syria
> -SZ     Swaziland
> +SZ     Eswatini (Swaziland)
>  TC     Turks & Caicos Is
>  TD     Chad
>  TF     French Southern & Antarctic Lands
> --
> 2.20.1
>
>
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