Time Zone change in GEORGIA (Eastern Europe), time zone is now GMT+3 (no longer GMT+4)

[Mark Davis]

Ah, that explains it. Thanks.

‎Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Eggert" <eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU>
To: "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com>
Cc: "Tz (tz at elsie.nci.nih.gov)" <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 16:23
Subject: Re: Time Zone change in GEORGIA (Eastern Europe), time zone is now
GMT+3 (no longer GMT+4)


> "Mark Davis" <mark.davis at jtcsv.com> writes:
>
> > ... can someone fill me in on why the TZIDs have an attached continent
in
> > the first place? The only thing I can see is that it may make the TZID
> > slightly less ambiguous than just the city name
>
> That's part of it.  There were more mundane reasons, too.  Subdividing
> into continents kept the "ls" listings on a single 24x80 screen.  It
> also kept directory sizes small in the file system, which was a
> performance issue on the old SunOS box that I originally developed the
> naming scheme on.
>
> I didn't know that there would be political controversies about which
> continent a location resides in.  I knew about Istanbul, but there
> it's clear which half of the city is European and which is Asian.
>
>