maemo.org - Talk - Fremantle timezone update impact

What would change if we used the most recent timezone info from 2013-12-17 (iana.org) in CSSU?

The timezone files would be updated (in package glibc), which will also affects package libcityinfo0-0 (containing the city database). So we need to update two packages at least.

My findings are:
[cd] = correction needed in city database
[x] = exists in the current glibc package, but is not created anymore with the new timezone files, and also not used.
old situation -> new situation

Europe:
Europe/Nicosia -> Asia/Nicosia [cd] (moved to asia)
Europe/Belfast -> Europe/London [cd]
Europe/Tiraspol -> Europe/Chisinau [x]

Asia:
Asia/Tel_Aviv -> Asia/Jerusalem [cd]
(Asia/Tel_Aviv: the city database record seems to be mixed/messed up with Asia/Jerusalem. Tel Aviv is shown in the citylist nevertheless.
Tel Aviv will point to Jerusalem instead).
Asia/Ashkhabad -> Asia/Ashgabat [x] (new name already used)
Asia/Calcutta -> Asia/Kolkata [x] (new name already used)
Asia/Chungking -> Asia/Chongqing [x]
Asia/Dacca -> Asia/Dhaka [x] (new name already used)
Asia/Katmandu -> Asia/Kathmandu [x]+[cd]
Asia/Macao -> Asia/Macau [x] (new name already used)
Asia/Saigon -> Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh [cd]
Asia/Thimbu -> Asia/Thimphu [x]+[cd] (Astana needs to be changed in de cb)
Asia/Ujung_Pandang -> Asia/Makassar [x] (new name already used)
Asia/Ulan_Bator -> Asia/Ulaanbaatar [cd]

Australia:
Australia/ACT -> Australia/Sydney [x]
Australia/Canberra -> Australia/Sydney [x] (already pointing to sydney in cd)
Australia/LHI -> Australia/Lord_Howe [x]
Australia/NSW -> Australia/Sydney [x]
Australia/Queensland -> Australia/Brisbane [x]
Australia/South -> Australia/Adelaide [x]
Australia/Tasmania -> Australia/Hobart [x]
Australia/Victoria -> Australia/Melbourne [x]
Australia/Yancowinna -> Australia/Broken_Hill [x]
Australia/North -> Australia/Darwin [x]
Australia/West -> Australia/Perth [x]

Africa:
Africa/Timbuktu -> Africa/Bamako [x]
Africa/Asmera -> Africa/Asmara [x]
Africa/Ceuta [x]

Antarctica:
Antarctica/South_Pole -> Pacific/Auckland [x]

Pacific:
Pacific/Ponape -> Pacific/Pohnpei [cd] (used for Palikir)
Pacific/Yap -> Pacific/Chuuk [x]
Pacific/Samoa -> Pacific/Pago_Pago [x] (this samoa not used)
Pacific/Truk -> Pacific/Chuuk [x]

Indian:
no findings

Atlantic:
Atlantic/Faeroe -> Atlantic/Faroe [x] (faroe already used)
Atlantic/Jan_Mayen -> Europe/Oslo [x]

US:
US/Hawaii -> Pacific/Honolulu [cd]
US/Samoa -> Pacific/Pago_Pago [x]
US/Mountain -> America/Denver [x]
US/Michigan -> America/Detroit [x]
US/Indiana-Starke -> America/Indiana/Knox [x]
US/Alaska -> America/Anchorage [x]
US/Aleutian -> America/Adak [x]
US/Arizona -> America/Phoenix [x]
US/Central [x]
US/Eastern [x]
US/East-Indiana [x]
US/Pacific [x]

America:
America/Buenos_Aires -> America/Argentina/Buenos_Aires [x]
America/Atka -> America/Adak [x]
America/Catamarca -> America/Argentina/Catamarca [x]
America/Coral_Harbour -> America/Atikokan [x]
America/Cordoba -> America/Argentina/Cordoba [x]
America/Ensenada -> America/Tijuana [x]
America/Fort_Wayne-> America/Indiana/Indianapolis [x]
America/Virgin -> America/Port_of_Spain [x]
America/Rosario -> America/Argentina/Cordoba [x]
Brazil/Acre -> America/Rio_Branco [cd]
America/Indianapolis -> America/Indiana/Indianapolis [cd]
America/Jujuy -> America/Argentina/Jujuy [x]
America/Knox_IN-> America/Indiana/Knox [x]
America/Mendoza -> America/Argentina/Mendoza [x]
America/Louisville -> America/Kentucky/Louisville [x]
America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia -> America/Argentina/Catamarca [x]

I also found some differences in the city database file (both libcityinfo0-0 version 0.5.15-1+0m5) between my two phones: the coordinates where slightly different, on one Hong Kong was a separate country (not China), and one had an extra city: Western Sahara, Laayoune, (UTC +0). No idea about that.
==> latest libcityinfo version should have removed Western Sahara and put Hong Kong with China.

It will eventually result in the following corrections in the worldclock citylist (old) vs (new):

Belarus, Minsk, (UTC +2) (UTC +3)
Brazil, Acre, (UTC -4) (UTC +5)
Brazil, Goiania, (UTC -2) (UTC -4)
Russia, Anadyr, (UTC +11) (UTC +12)
Russia, Irkutsk, (UTC +8) (UTC +9)
Russia, Kaliningrad, (UTC +2) (UTC +3)
Russia, Krasnoyarsk, (UTC +7) (UTC +8)
Russia, Magadan, (UTC +11) (UTC +12)
Russia, Moscow, (UTC +3) (UTC +4)
Russia, Novosibirsk, (UTC +6) (UTC +7)
Russia, Samara, (UTC +3) (UTC +4)
Russia, St. Petersburg, (UTC +3) (UTC +4)
Russia, Vladivostok, (UTC +10) (UTC +11)
Russia, Yakutsk, (UTC +9) (UTC +10)
Russia, Yekaterinburg, (UTC +5) (UTC +6)
Samoa, Apia, (UTC -11) (UTC +14)
Tokelau, Fakaofo, (UTC -10) (UTC +13)

This is of course with daylight savings for this particular moment.
The visual worldmap from the timezone picker in system setting also picks up the changes correctly.

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