[tz] [PROPOSED] Merge timezones that are alike since 1970

[Clive D.W. Feather]

Stephen Colebourne via tz said:
> As can be seen in the link, many places (eg Anguilla, Antigua and
> Aruba) are now sharing time-zone history, and that history is **from
> some other zone**. That seems completely unacceptable.
> 
> While I understand the motivation to remove the burden of pre-1970,
> that cannot come at the cost of giving a place the history of
> somewhere completely different.

But that's been the case ever since we stopped creating new zones when we
discovered a bit of pre-1970 history. All that's happened is that this is
now being done across countries rather than only within a country.

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