[tz] Proposal to use Asia/Tel_Aviv for Israel - Jerusalem is not internationally recognized as part of Israel

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Tue May 7 17:06:37 UTC 2013


<<On Tue, 7 May 2013 18:02:35 +0100, Ian Abbott <abbotti at mev.co.uk> said:

> Would there be any problems changing the country code for Asia/Jerusalem 
> to, say, "XJ" in zone.tab, adding an entry for "XJ" to iso3166.tab and 
> adding an entry for Asia/Tel_Aviv with country code "IL" to zone.tab?

Yes.  Some (many?) implementations use their own table of ISO 3166
codes, which includes only the codes on ISO 3166-MA's list.

-GAWollman




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