[tz] Portugal

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-03-12 20:12, Tim Parenti wrote:

> At first inspection, it looks to me as though this may be some sort of bug
> with zishrink.awk.

Yes, as its comments say it's special-purpose code that works for the 
current tzdata but it's fragile. I installed the attached patch which 
should address this particular situation, but the code's still fragile 
as you can see.


> For Africa/Cape_Verde and Africa/Maputo, I think there is still some
> residual value in mentioning "Shanks said something different", since we
> aren't sure there wasn't some other law that could have introduced zonal
> time to any given colony prior to the May 1911 decree.  But I can
> definitely aim to be more concise in doing so.

Sounds good.


> Do you mind if I quote/paraphrase that in the updated commentary?

No, that sounds good too.


> The commented-out Asia/Panaji section is already in 'backzone'.

Oh, sorry, I didn't notice that. Please ignore that part of my earlier 
comment.
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