<div dir="ltr">Android uses this zone.tab column in multiple places (but all for the purposes of knowing what time zones are most relevant for a given country code).<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 3:27 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On 05/20/13 13:59, Garrett Wollman wrote:<br>
> FreeBSD does this (and always has); you can look at it if you want.<br>
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I have been thinking of proposing to drop iso3166.tab from the<br>
tz distribution, and to drop all uses of country codes.<br>
This would help simplify maintenance, as it would mean<br>
that the database would be unaffected by political<br>
issues such as whether Kosovo is a country, what country<br>
Jerusalem is in, what country Taipei is in, etc. The idea<br>
is to simplify the database to help us focus on our charter<br>
(namely, civil time) and to be less distracted by political<br>
issues that do not affect the clocks.<br>
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As part of this change, the first column of zone.tab<br>
would change from its current role (a country code)<br>
to be just a comment.<br>
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I was thinking of changing the comment to be just "--",<br>
for every entry in zone.tab. How would this change<br>
affect FreeBSD's use of zone.tab?<br>
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