[tz] Preparing to fork tzdb

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Tue, 21 Sep 2021 12:44:22 -0700, Paul Eggert via tz <tz at iana.org> said:

> That sort of argument would be valid only if one accepted as an axiom 
> that countries (or states) are an inherent part of timekeeping.

Governments self-evidently are: they are why we even have time zones
in the first place.  Everything in this database is _inherently_
political, and your continued attempts to "avoid politics" do nothing
of the sort.

-GAWollman