This should allay concerns that the links would go away any time soon.
Suggested by Stephen Colebourne in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019801.html>.
Change "`" to "'"; these days, "`" and "'" are not symmetric.
* antarctica (Antarctica/McMurdo):
* europe (Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man)
(Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Vatican, Europe/San_Marino)
(Arctic/Longyearbyen, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/Podgorica)
(Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Bratislava):
* northamerica (America/St_Barthelemy, America/Marigot):
* southamerica (America/Lower_Princes, America/Kralendijk):
Move here from 'backward'. This reverts a 2013-08-09 change.
* backward: Move links here from other files, if the only reason
they existed was to fill out zone.tab. Zones are now allowed to
cross national borders, so a zone now need not exist merely
because there's a national border. Sort the list consistently.
None of this changes any time stamp in the database.
* checktab.awk: Don't require that zone.tab's column 3 be unique.
* europe (Europe/Jersey, Europe/Guernsey, Europe/Isle_of_Man)
(Europe/Mariehamn, Europe/Busingen, Europe/Vatican, Europe/San_Marino)
(Arctic/Longyearbyen, Europe/Ljubljana, Europe/Podgorica)
(Europe/Sarajevo, Europe/Skopje, Europe/Zagreb, Europe/Bratislava):
* northamerica (America/St_Barthelemy, America/Marigot):
* southamerica (America/Lower_Princes, America/Kralendijk):
Move links to 'backward'.
* zone.tab: Give more details about how different rows can have
duplicate column 1 or column 3. For each link moved to 'backward',
change column 3 to be the non-backward name.
The source is: Milne J. Civil time. Geogr J. 1899 Feb;13(2):173-94
<http://www.jstor.org/stable/1774359>.
* africa (Africa/Gaborone, Africa/Cairo):
* asia (Asia/Rangoon, Asia/Shanghai, Asia/Hong_Kong, Asia/Aden):
* australasia (Pacific/Fiji):
* europe (Europe/Vienna):
* northamerica (America/Nassau, America/Barbados, Atlantic/Bermuda)
(America/Costa_Rica):
* southamerica (America/Bogota, America/Curacao):
Adjust old time stamps to match Milne. I went going through
Milne's list one by one and did not finish, but the rest can be
done later.
* africa, australasia, europe, northamerica, southamerica:
* tzselect.ksh, zdump.c, zic.c:
In commentary and strings, change email address from
tz@elsie.nci.nih.gov to tz@iana.org, as the old email address
no longer works.