proposed time zone package changes (Belarus, Newfoundland, Palestine)

[lennox at cs.columbia.edu]

On Saturday, September 17 2011, "Arthur David Olson" wrote to "<tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>" saying:

> Here are proposed changes to the time zone package.

> ! PS	+3130+03428	Asia/Gaza	Gaza
> ! PS	+313200+0350542	Asia/Hebron	Hebron

I don't think this is the correct zone.tab human-readable description for
Asia/Hebron -- Hebron is just one city in the zone.

The proper description to use is unfortunately politically fraught, but I
think the most-common neutral English-language description is "West Bank".
(This is the name Wikipedia uses for the region, for instance.)

Similarly, the region for Asia/Gaza is more commonly "Gaza Strip" in
English, as it is in Wikipedia (Gaza being the largest city in the Gaza
Strip).

-- 
Jonathan Lennox
lennox at cs.columbia.edu