proposed time zone package changes (Russia, Curacao)

Paul Koning paul_koning at Dell.com
Thu Jun 16 10:52:11 UTC 2011


On Jun 15, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Jaakko Hyvätti wrote:

> 
> Hi, is it logical to have these new zones named with cities (which are not that big and known, or unique), and Antilles earlier named with islands (/Aruba, /Curacao, /Dominica, /Martinique etc)?  I would suggest zones:
> 
> BQ	America/Bonaire
> CW	America/Curacao
> SX	America/Sint_Maarten
> 
> Or, if Sint Maarten, an island of two countries, needs a city, I would suggest
> 
> SX	America/Philipsburg

"Sint_Maarten" works fine even so, because the other half is named Saint_Martin (and isn't a country, besides).

	paul



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