[tz] Macquarie Island - ISO 3166-1 code AQ vs AU

Stuart Bishop stuart at stuartbishop.net
Fri Apr 12 10:13:59 UTC 2013


On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Tobias Conradi
<mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com> wrote:

>>>>Macquarie Island in the IANA time zone database is AQ and not Australia.
>>>
>>> Macquarie island is part of Australia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Island
>>
>> In Wikipedia, not in the IANA time zone database.
>>
>> ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/zone.tab
>>
>> AQ -5430+15857 Antarctica/Macquarie Macquarie Island Station, Macquarie Island
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macquarie_Island categorized as belonging
> to Tasmania, which in turn is given as part of Australia.
>
> What is the reason to have Macquarie Island as AQ Antartica in the
> IANA time zone database?

Macquarie Island is politically Australian territory, but
geographically on the Antarctic continent. I don't know if the 'ISO
3166 2-character country code' zone.tab refers to is supposed to
reference the political or geographic code, but it at least seems
consistent with respect to the Antarctic bases and islands.

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Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net>
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