[tz] [PATCH] Replace Africa zones with links when that doesn't lose useful info.

[Alan Barrett]

On Wed, 09 Jul 2014, Paul Eggert wrote:
> Subject: Re: [tz] [PATCH] Replace Africa zones with links when 
> that doesn't lose useful info.

Some of these changes do lose useful information.  In particular, 
many timezone abbreviations were changed, and some or all of those 
changes lose useful information.  I also noticed some changes in
pre-1970 information, which some people find useful.

I live in South Africa, and can confirm that "SAST" is the correct 
abbreviation here (although I have been unable to find the 
relevant legislation).  To the best of my knowledge, most other 
African countries that share the same UTC offset do not use the 
abbreviation "SAST", so the change from "CAT" (Central African 
Time) to "SAST" (South African Standard Time) is wrong for them.

--apb (Alan Barrett)