[tz] Proposal to use Asia/Tel_Aviv for Israel - Jerusalem is not internationally recognized as part of Israel
Tobias Conradi
mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com
Sat Apr 20 18:43:30 UTC 2013
On Sat, Apr 20, 2013 at 6:51 PM, SM <sm at resistor.net> wrote:
> At 06:21 20-04-2013, Tobias Conradi wrote:
>>
>> == Problem ==
>> Jerusalem is internationally not recognized as part of Israel. Using
>> Jerusalem as reference location for Israel in the IANA time zone
>> database may thus violate UN resolutions.
>
>
> If I recall correctly the argument was to use population size.
Of territory that is not internationally recognized as belonging to Israel?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Jerusalem#Demographics
"At the end of 2008, the population of East Jerusalem was 456,300"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Jerusalem#After_Jerusalem_Law
As of May 24, 2006, Jerusalem's population was 724,000
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel_Aviv
City 410,000
Urban 1,300,000
Metro 3,405,000
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