Time Zone Localizations
Guy Harris
guy at alum.mit.edu
Fri Jun 11 01:11:51 UTC 2004
On Jun 10, 2004, at 12:04 PM, Mark Davis wrote:
> I'd very much appreciate any feedback on the proposal.
Some of the countries listed as missing zones are:
Bouvet Island - an uninhabited volcanic island, almost entirely
covered by glaciers, controlled by Norway, and designated as a nature
reserve, according to
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bv.html
I don't know if the automated meteorological station on the island
cares about time zones or not.
Heard Island and McDonald Islands - uninhabited, barren, sub-Antarctic
islands now controlled by Australia, designated as a nature preserve,
according to
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/hm.html
They don't even mention any automated meteorological stations, just
seals and birds.
Yugoslavia - it's now Serbia and Montenegro. Europe/Belgrade is the
correct zone for it.
Some of the time zones listed as missing countries are:
Europe/Belgrade: Serbia and Montenegro, which has the ISO 3166-1
Alpha-2 code CS, according to
http://www.iso.org/iso/en/prods-services/iso3166ma/01whats-new/2003
-07-23_statement_cs.html
Asia/Riyadh{87,88,89}: Saudi Arabia, SA - those are historical, from
an era when Saudi Arabia used solar time, and apply only to Riyadh
(and, if you're really fussy, to a particular location in Riyadh, I
guess), so they're not appropriate for Saudi Arabia as a whole. I
don't know what names you'd give them.
Etc/GMT{[+-]N} are just for fixed GMT offsets; they don't correspond to
countries.
WET, CET, MET, and EET "are for backward compatibility with older
versions"; various Europe/XXX rules should presumably be used instead -
I guess you could pick cities for each of them.
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