[tz] [PATCH] Revert recent pre-1970 changes.

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Sat Aug 31 23:51:13 UTC 2013


On Aug 31, 2013, at 4:26 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:

> Here is the patch of reversions I would consider to be appropriate:
> https://github.com/jodastephen/tz/commit/86a12cbb08b28683d964f0960c6453abbd1b70da

Presumably

-  Uninhabited regions like the North Pole and Bouvet Island
-    do not need locations, since local time is not defined there.
+  Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country.
+    One such location is enough.  Use ISO 3166 (see the file
+    iso3166.tab) to help decide whether something is a country.
+    However, uninhabited ISO 3166 regions like Bouvet Island

was intended to be

-  Uninhabited regions like the North Pole and Bouvet Island
+  Include at least one location per time zone rule set per country.
+    One such location is enough.  Use ISO 3166 (see the file
+    iso3166.tab) to help decide whether something is a country.
+    However, uninhabited ISO 3166 regions like Bouvet Island

so that you don't lose "do not need locations...".


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