[tz] Dropping coordinates from zone1970.tab?

Guy Harris gharris at sonic.net
Thu Sep 30 09:26:58 UTC 2021


On Sep 30, 2021, at 2:18 AM, Aurelien Jarno via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:

> On 2021-09-30 02:14, Guy Harris wrote:
>> On Sep 30, 2021, at 1:34 AM, Aurelien Jarno via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote:
>> 
>>> Again the problem is not about automatically selecting the timezone when
>>> clicking on a random location, but clicking on those cities. Among
>>> others Antarctica/Syowa or America/Nassau can't be shown anymore on a
>>> map.
>> 
>> "Antarctica/Syowa" and "Asia/Riyadh" are regions on the map, not points on the map.
> 
> Thanks, that is the demonstration that those coordinates in the
> zone1970.tab file (i.e. points and not regions) are totally useless and
> should just be dropped.

Good, because that's exactly what I think should happen (as I indicated in an earlier message)!


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