[tz] Missing entry for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands

Paul Goyette pgoyette at juniper.net
Fri May 11 22:05:59 UTC 2012


Wouldn't we normally _not_ create a new zone until it diverges from its current zone?

Which makes the historical "has it always been GMT-5" important.  If that answer is yes, then there's no need (yet) for a new zone, but if there is an historical divergence then a new zone is warranted.


From: tz-bounces at iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces at iana.org] On Behalf Of Mark Davis ?
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Subject: Re: [tz] Missing entry for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands

I also agree.

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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 1:17 PM, David Patte <dpatte at relativedata.com<mailto:dpatte at relativedata.com>> wrote:
I also agree


On 2012-05-11 15:56, Paw Boel Nielsen wrote:
I agree with Tobias a new zone for Heard Island and MacDonald Islands would be beneficial.
Maybe because Etc/GMT-5 is adequate?
Systems that are set to use "Etc/GMT-5" will not observe a change even if HM changes.
Paw

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On Fri, May 11, 2012 at 7:21 PM, Ian Abbott<abbotti at mev.co.uk<mailto:abbotti at mev.co.uk>>  wrote:
If so, why is HM not covered?
Maybe because Etc/GMT-5 is adequate?
Systems that are set to use "Etc/GMT-5" will not observe a change even if HM changes.

I don't know whether HM observed UTC+5 during all the time since 1970.

That is an information the tzdb provides for many other ISO 3166-1 regions, but for HM it fails to do so.

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