Time Zone Localizations

[jcowan at reutershealth.com]

Clive D.W. Feather scripsit:

> > uses the UN geographic codes whenever
> > ISO duplicates a code, since unlike the ISO codes, the UN codes are stable.
> 
> Except when they aren't. Like Ethiopia or Panama.

They are not stable in the sense of never changing.  They are stable in the
sense of never being reassigned, unlike both the 2-alphas and the 3-alphas.

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