proposed time zone package changes (Russia, Curacao)

[Jaakko Hyvätti]

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

..because the settlements like Lower Prince's Quarter hardly qualify as a 
city as itself, and Philipsburg at least has a port, commercial centre of 
the island, and is the capital city.  Other settlements are like suburbs 
of it.  Number of residents sleeping within it does not matter as all the 
settlements are within few hundred meters to few km from it.  Kind of we 
do not have America/Brooklyn (Brooklyn is the most populous of New York 
City's five boroughs).

Regards,
Jaakko

On Wed, 15 Jun 2011, Arthur David Olson wrote:

>> In respect to the the dissolution of AN (Netherlands Antilles), you are
>> replacing its record with CW Curacao; but shouldn't a record also be
>> added for the other country formed by the dissolution, namely
>> Sint-Maarten (SX)?
>
> Below are revised changes to get in sync with the current ISO3166 data;
> these changes are relative to the stuff on the ftp site.
>
> 				--ado
>
> diff -r old/iso3166.tab new/iso3166.tab
> 2c2
> < # @(#)iso3166.tab	8.6
> ---
>> # @(#)iso3166.tab	8.9
> 23a24,27
>> # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
>> # Resynchronized today with the ISO3116 site
>> # (deleting AN and adding BQ, CW, and SX).
>> #
> 33d36
> < AN	Netherlands Antilles
> 55a59
>> BQ	Bonaire Sint Eustatius & Saba
> 77a82
>> CW	Curacao
> 233a239
>> SX	Sint Maarten
> diff -r old/southamerica new/southamerica
> 2c2
> < # @(#)southamerica	8.49
> ---
>> # @(#)southamerica	8.50
> 1278a1279,1286
>> # From Arthur David Olson (2011-06-15):
>> # At least for now, use links for places with new iso3166 codes.
>> # The name "Lower Prince's Quarter" is both longer than fourteen charaters
>> # and contains an apostrophe; use "Lower_Princes" below.
>>
>> Link	America/Curacao	America/Lower_Princes # Sint Maarten
>> Link	America/Curacao	America/Kralendijk # Bonaire, Sint Estatius and Saba
>>
> diff -r old/zone.tab new/zone.tab
> 2c2
> < # @(#)zone.tab	8.43
> ---
>> # @(#)zone.tab	8.45
> 35d34
> < AN	+1211-06900	America/Curacao
> 89a89
>> BQ	+120903-0681636	America/Kralendijk
> 157a158
>> CW	+1211-06900	America/Curacao
> 364a366
>> SX	+180305-0630250	America/Lower_Princes
>
>

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