<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto">The primary division would be current iso countries.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And there is no need to go back as far as you suggest. LMT, as I'm sure you are aware, originated as standard in many cities in the 1800 due to clock technology. Before that most people used local solar (sundial) time.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto" id="composer_signature"><div dir="auto" style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Sent from my Galaxy</div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000" dir="auto" align="left"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Steve Allen via tz <tz@iana.org> </div><div>Date: 2021-09-21 18:40 (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Time Zone Database discussion <tz@iana.org> </div><div>Subject: Re: [tz] Replacing the TZ Coordinator </div><div><br></div></div>On Tue 2021-09-21T22:42:47+0100 Stephen Colebourne via tz hath writ:<br>> Is there consensus on the list that a change is required?<br><br>No.<br><br>Before a change of coordinator happens I want to see proponents of<br>"one zone per ISO country code" and proponents of the "data before<br>1970 must be available" agree on how tzdata and tzcode should handle<br>this:<br><br>https://www.euratlas.net/history/europe/1600/<br><br>--<br>Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> WGS-84 (GPS)<br>UCO/Lick Observatory--ISB 260 Natural Sciences II, Room 165 Lat +36.99855<br>1156 High Street Voice: +1 831 459 3046 Lng -122.06015<br>Santa Cruz, CA 95064 https://www.ucolick.org/~sla/ Hgt +250 m<br></body></html>