Corrections of zone.tab for CN entries
Paul Eggert
eggert at twinsun.com
Tue Sep 25 17:26:21 UTC 2001
> Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2001 17:16:13 +0200
> From: Oscar van Vlijmen <o.van.vlijmen at tip.nl>
>
> The same can be said for Viet Nam: Saigon is larger, but capital Ha Noi
> would be a more logical choice.
I'd rather stick to the simpler and less-political rule.
Admittedly politics cannot be excluded entirely.
> Johannesburg has fewer inhabitants (712507) than 'winner' Pretoria
> (854616), but Pretoria has not been chosen for the tz-database.
But Johannesburg's metropolitan-area population is considerably larger
than Pretoria's. I'm not so much worried about the municipal city
limits, as by how important the center of population is.
> http://www.romanization.com/
Yes, that's a good source, albeit a partisan one.
I'll know that pinyin has finally taken over when we English-speakers
normally call the capital of Taiwan "Taibei". (:-) But I suppose I
should add "Taibei" and "T'ai-pei" in the comments for Asia/Taipei.
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