[tz] Proposal for new zone: America/WestWendover

[Tobias Conradi]

On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 4:56 PM, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> wrote:
> On 2012-05-22 13:32, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 2:18 PM, Steffen Daode Nurpmeso
>> <sdaoden at googlemail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Tobias Conradi<tobias.conradi at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>  |DumontDUrville = 14 characters, which is the maximum allowed.
>>>
>>> East-Saskatchewan.  And there are more, but i simply did
>>>
>>>  $ tail -c 4096 [.]/cvsroot/cpp-sys/shared/timezone.dat,v | less
>>>
>>> Or are you actually going for portable filename limits here.
>>> It's a bit late for that, is it.
>>
>> East-Saskatchewan is in
>> ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/backward
>> "Canada/East-Saskatchewan"
>>
>> which is not a valid name for a zone according to the current Theory file.
>
>
> Changing the backward entries to conform to the naming rule would do more
> harm than good!
Maybe that is the reason why I do not see any proposal to change the
backward entries.

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