Come to think of it, if downstream users (unwisely) build with "make
PACKRATDATA=backzone PACKRATLIST=" they'll get data quite wrong for Yellowknife, so
until/unless that get fixed we should comment the data out. I installed the attached.
Thanks for pointing out the issue.
From 804153d834ad0f933d73166d01c6381ca422a55b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:19:48 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED] backzone Yellowknife workaround
Problem reported by James Bellaire in:
https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/message/TIVTAEOSLEBN66SOJID6LZFX6A7JNQX6/
* backzone: Comment out Yellowknife for now.
---
backzone | 7 ++++---
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/backzone b/backzone
index e3ec2032..ed248236 100644
--- a/backzone
+++ b/backzone
@@ -927,9 +927,10 @@ Zone America/Tortola -4:18:28 - LMT 1911 Jul # Road Town
-4:00 - AST
# Yellowknife, Northwest Territories
-Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded?
- -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980
- -7:00 Canada M%sT
+# Commented out as too wrong to be useful.
+#Zone America/Yellowknife 0 - -00 1935 # Yellowknife founded?
+# -7:00 NT_YK M%sT 1980
+# -7:00 Canada M%sT
# Dumont d'Urville, Île des Pétrels, -6640+14001, since 1956-11
# <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumont_d'Urville_Station> (2005-12-05)
--
2.55.0
