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Bug#508118: Incorrect term for Americas



On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 06:07:24PM +0000, Joshua Swink wrote:
> The file usr/share/zoneinfo/zone.tab refers to the Americas as
> "America" 137 times.

Do you mean that "America" is used to refer to either North America or
South America each of those 137 times?

> Less importantly (since they do not display to the user), there are
> three directories named "America" which concern the Americas:
> 
> ./usr/share/zoneinfo/right/America
> ./usr/share/zoneinfo/posix/America
> ./usr/share/zoneinfo/America

When is zone.tab displayed to the user?



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