[tz] Pre-1970 data
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at davros.org
Fri Nov 5 22:26:40 UTC 2021
Brian Park via tz said:
> 4) So maybe the solution is to use 2-letter or 3-letter ISO codes,
> instead of the shortened, quasi-English versions of the country names.
> So we get things like "CA/Eastern" or "CAN/Eastern", instead of
> "Canada/Eastern". Not very satisfying for Canadians or many other
> countries (except for Americans whose ISO codes "US" and "USA" match
> their colloquial usage perfectly).
Are you ready to jump into the political quagmire that is "GB" versus "UK"?
Something that people are - literally - ready to kill over.
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