[tz] Recent conversions of zones to aliases

[Guy Harris]

On Oct 2, 2014, at 5:27 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

>> there should be at
>> least one actual Zone entry for each ISO defined territory/country,
> 
> That has never been true of the tz database.  Adding such a requirement now would result in more political churn and maintenance overhead, something we already have too much of.  There is a real benefit to keeping our distance from politics, even if this means some regression tests need to be updated.

Seconded.