[tz] Grouped country lists are confusing

[Magnus Fromreide]

On Sat, Oct 29, 2022 at 10:03:12PM -0700, Paul Eggert via tz wrote:
> On 2022-10-29 21:58, Tom Lane wrote:
> > But ... but ... but ... you already made that value judgment in
> > your choice of the zone data.
> 
> I wouldn't call it a value judgment, unless by "value judgment" one 
> means "we partition the world back to 1970 and then we stop."

If that is the case then I would like to know why there is any pre-1970 data
in the files? Is that not a value judgement that makes some countries seem
more equal than others?

/MF