[tz] [PROPOSED] Merge timezones that are alike since 1970

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu May 27 01:59:48 UTC 2021


On 5/22/21 11:17 AM, Tim Parenti wrote:

> I'm inclined to agree here.  In particular, the latter group (things
> like America/La_Paz -> Etc/GMT+4) seems to encourage things or behaviors
> which historically cause confusion, especially for novices:

Yes, it appears that I may have gone a bit too far in consolidating 
Etc/* names with other names. I undid that part of the change by 
installing the attached followup patch (first patch).
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