Talk:List of tz database time zones/Archive 2023

Country Code: IS (Iceland) in Africa

Country code "IS" is Iceland, however this was listed under Africa/Abidjan Is there any reasoning behind this? If valid, please revert my change. 185.17.174.229 (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Undone. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 185.17.174.229 (talk) 15:31, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

Is there any reasoning behind this? At some point, the tzdb maintainer, Paul Eggert, removed, from the default configuration, a lot of tzdb regions that had the same time history following 1970, as the database only attempts to guarantee correct information for 1970 and afterwards (prior to that, it can be difficult to find reliable data, so no guarantees are offered).

This included combining a bunch of regions into one, and Abidjan was, I think, the most populated "named city" of those regions.

(There is no guarantee that a tzdb region is contiguous or contained solely within one country.) Guy Harris (talk) 23:47, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

There was a duplicate entry for Africa/Asmara

Is Africa/Asmera a typo or is there's a grammatical switch somewhere? Africa/Asmera should be Africa/Asmara and so I've removed the duplicate and incorrect spelt entry from the table. Feel free to revert. I guess it's an "official" typo? 185.17.174.229 (talk) 15:22, 13 May 2023 (UTC)

I guess it's an "official" typo? It's official, in that there are both Africa/Asmara and Africa/Asmera links to Africa/Nairobi. (Asmara lists both names in the lede.)

This page reflects the tzdb's contents, even if they aren't what people might expect to be the case.

(They're links to Africa/Nairobi for the same reason that Atlantic/Reykjavik is a link to Africa/Abidjan; see my answer in the previous section. Editors who think that "something is wrong on the Internet" on this page shuld first read Theory and pragmatics of the `tz` code and data and then check the source files in the latest release.) Guy Harris (talk) 00:04, 14 May 2023 (UTC)

The America/Kentucky/Monticello entry is incorrect

The offsets and time zone columns of America/Kentucky/Monticello are incorrect.

The time zone should be CST/CDT, and the offsets -6:00 / -5:00

References:

[https://www.iana.org/time-zones]

[https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zone/usa/kentucky]

Cpetrescu (talk) 20:25, 19 September 2023 (UTC)

Nope, the entry in the tzdb northamerica file, in the 2023c release, for that tzdb region is

#
# Wayne County, Kentucky
#
# From Lake Cumberland LIFE
# http://www.lake-cumberland.com/life/archive/news990129time.shtml
# (1999-01-29) via WKYM-101.7:
# Clinton County has joined Wayne County in asking the DoT to change from
# the Central to the Eastern time zone....  The Wayne County government made
# the same request in December.  And while Russell County officials have not
# taken action, the majority of respondents to a poll conducted there in
# August indicated they would like to change to "fast time" also.
# The three Lake Cumberland counties are the farthest east of any U.S.
# location in the Central time zone.
#
# From Rich Wales (2000-08-29):
# After prolonged debate, and despite continuing deep differences of opinion,
# Wayne County (central Kentucky) is switching from Central (-0600) to Eastern
# (-0500) time.  They won't "fall back" this year.  See Sara Shipley,
# The difference an hour makes, Nando Times (2000-08-29 15:33 -0400).
#
# From Paul Eggert (2001-07-16):
# The final rule was published in the
# Federal Register 65, 160 (2000-08-17), pp 50154-50158.
# https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2000-08-17/html/00-20854.htm
#                                                                               
Zone America/Kentucky/Monticello -5:39:24 - LMT	1883 Nov 18 18:00u
			-6:00	US	C%sT	1946
			-6:00	-	CST	1968
			-6:00	US	C%sT	2000 Oct 29  2:00
			-5:00	US	E%sT

so it's currently on Eastern time. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Guy Harris (talk • contribs) 00:24, 13 November 2023 (UTC)