proposed time zone package changes (Belarus, Newfoundland, Palestine)
lennox at cs.columbia.edu
lennox at cs.columbia.edu
Mon Sep 19 15:08:01 UTC 2011
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
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