[tz] Theory - proposal to delete the reference to population

[Tobias Conradi]

On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 3:37 AM, Tobias Conradi
<tobias.conradi at gmail.com> wrote:
> References to population in tzcode2012b/Theory
> 1) "However, uninhabited ISO 3166 regions like Bouvet Island do not need
> locations, since local time is not defined there."

According to
https://github.com/valodzka/tzcode/commit/6ebeff7617961b81da63377669138e44a3f948f8
https://github.com/valodzka/tzcode/blame/6ebeff7617961b81da63377669138e44a3f948f8/Theory

the above provision exists since 2005-08-29 tzcode2005m.

The mailing list archive for the related month is at
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2005-August/thread.html

Under "Request from CLDR committee" there is
http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2005-August/013149.html
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Paul Eggert eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU
Thu Aug 18 21:52:49 UTC 2005
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I'll insert the word "inhabited" before "country"; that's simpler.
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