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

[Mark Davis ☕️]

Tobias,

This would be pointless screwing around with files that would just cause
software to break. It's just a file name.


Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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On Sun, Jul 20, 2014 at 5:07 AM, Tobias Conradi <tc at tobiasconradi.com>
wrote:

> 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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>
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>
>
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> Tobias Conradi
> Rheinsberger Str. 18
> 10115 Berlin
> Germany
>
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