[tz] Fwd: Proposal to rename zone.tab to region.tab

Tobias Conradi tc at tobiasconradi.com
Sun Jul 20 03:07:56 UTC 2014


Retry, this didn't go through 2013-09-15, due to blocking by the time
zone mailing list maintainer.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Tobias Conradi <mail.2012 at tobiasconradi.com>
Date: Sun, Sep 15, 2013 at 12:29 PM
Subject: Proposal to rename zone.tab to region.tab
To: "tz at iana.org mailing list" <tz at iana.org>


Proposal to rename
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/zone.tab
to
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/data/region.tab

Reason:
ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/code/Theory says

----- Scope of the tz database -----

...
To represent this data, the world is partitioned into regions
....

For each such region,
the database records all known clock transitions, and labels the region
......
Uniquely identify every national region
....
Indicate to humans as to where that region is.
....
is the name of a specific
location within that region.
.....
Uninhabited regions like
.....
If all the clocks in a region have agreed since 1970,
....
even if subregions' clocks disagreed before 1970.
......
Use cities or small islands, not countries
or regions, [! other meaning]
.....
The file `zone.tab' lists the geographical locations used to name
time zone rule files.  It is intended to be an exhaustive list
of names for geographic regions as described above.





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