Move four out-of-scope zones to 'backzone'

* NEWS: Document this. * australasia (Pacific/Guam): Now a link to Pacific/Guam. (Pacific/Midway): Now a link to Pacific/Pago_Pago. * backzone (America/Antigua, America/Cayman, Pacific/Miday) (Pacific/Saipan): Move these four entries here from the other files. * checktab.awk: Remove special cases for the four zones. * northamerica (America/Cayman): Now a link to America/Panama. (America/Antigua): Move to ... * southamerica (America/Antigua): ... here, and make it a link to America/Port_of_Spain.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
@@ -2,6 +2,15 @@ News for the tz database
 
 Unreleased, experimental changes
 
+  Changes affecting past time stamps
+
+    Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
+    from existing zones only for older time stamps.  As usual,
+    these changes affect UTC offsets in pre-1970 time stamps only.
+    Their old contents have been moved to the 'backzone' file.
+    The affected zones are: America/Antigua, America/Cayman,
+    Pacific/Midway, and Pacific/Saipan.
+
   Changes affecting commentary
 
     Cite the recent Mexican decree changing Quintana Roo's time zone.

diff --git a/australasia b/australasia
@@ -373,6 +373,7 @@ Zone	Pacific/Guam	-14:21:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
 			 9:39:00 -	LMT	1901        # Agana
 			10:00	-	GST	2000 Dec 23 # Guam
 			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
+Link Pacific/Guam Pacific/Saipan # N Mariana Is
 
 # Kiribati
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -388,12 +389,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Kiritimati	-10:29:20 -	LMT	1901
 			 14:00	-	LINT
 
 # N Mariana Is
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
-			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
-			 9:00	-	MPT	1969 Oct    # N Mariana Is Time
-			10:00	-	MPT	2000 Dec 23
-			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
+# See Pacific/Guam.
 
 # Marshall Is
 # Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
@@ -563,6 +559,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Pago_Pago	 12:37:12 -	LMT	1879 Jul  5
 			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
 			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
 			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
+Link Pacific/Pago_Pago Pacific/Midway # in US minor outlying islands
 
 # Samoa (formerly and also known as Western Samoa)
 
@@ -744,23 +741,7 @@ Zone Pacific/Funafuti	11:56:52 -	LMT	1901
 # uninhabited
 
 # Midway
-#
-# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
-# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
-# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
-# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
-# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
-# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
-# designations that I've never seen before:....
-# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
-#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
-#
-Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
-			-11:00	-	NST	1956 Jun  3
-			-11:00	1:00	NDT	1956 Sep  2
-			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
-			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
-			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
+# See Pacific/Pago_Pago.
 
 # Palmyra
 # uninhabited since World War II; was probably like Pacific/Kiritimati

diff --git a/backzone b/backzone
@@ -255,6 +255,11 @@ Zone	Africa/Timbuktu	-0:12:04 -	LMT	1912
 Zone America/Anguilla	-4:12:16 -	LMT	1912 Mar  2
 			-4:00	-	AST
 
+# Antigua and Barbuda
+Zone	America/Antigua	-4:07:12 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
+			-5:00	-	EST	1951
+			-4:00	-	AST
+
 # Chubut, Argentina
 # The name "Comodoro Rivadavia" exceeds the 14-byte POSIX limit.
 Zone America/Argentina/ComodRivadavia -4:30:00 - LMT	1894 Oct 31
@@ -274,6 +279,11 @@ Zone	America/Aruba	-4:40:24 -	LMT	1912 Feb 12 # Oranjestad
 			-4:30	-	ANT	1965 # Netherlands Antilles Time
 			-4:00	-	AST
 
+# Cayman Is
+Zone	America/Cayman	-5:25:32 -	LMT	1890     # Georgetown
+			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
+			-5:00	-	EST
+
 # Canada
 Zone America/Coral_Harbour -5:32:40 -	LMT	1884
 			-5:00	NT_YK	E%sT	1946
@@ -599,3 +609,29 @@ Zone	Indian/Mayotte	3:00:56 -	LMT	1911 Jul # Mamoutzou
 
 # US minor outlying islands
 Zone Pacific/Johnston	-10:00	-	HST
+
+# US minor outlying islands
+#
+# From Mark Brader (2005-01-23):
+# [Fallacies and Fantasies of Air Transport History, by R.E.G. Davies,
+# published 1994 by Paladwr Press, McLean, VA, USA; ISBN 0-9626483-5-3]
+# reproduced a Pan American Airways timetable from 1936, for their weekly
+# "Orient Express" flights between San Francisco and Manila, and connecting
+# flights to Chicago and the US East Coast.  As it uses some time zone
+# designations that I've never seen before:....
+# Fri. 6:30A Lv. HONOLOLU (Pearl Harbor), H.I.   H.L.T. Ar. 5:30P Sun.
+#  "   3:00P Ar. MIDWAY ISLAND . . . . . . . . . M.L.T. Lv. 6:00A  "
+#
+Zone Pacific/Midway	-11:49:28 -	LMT	1901
+			-11:00	-	NST	1956 Jun  3
+			-11:00	1:00	NDT	1956 Sep  2
+			-11:00	-	NST	1967 Apr    # N=Nome
+			-11:00	-	BST	1983 Nov 30 # B=Bering
+			-11:00	-	SST	            # S=Samoa
+
+# N Mariana Is
+Zone Pacific/Saipan	-14:17:00 -	LMT	1844 Dec 31
+			 9:43:00 -	LMT	1901
+			 9:00	-	MPT	1969 Oct    # N Mariana Is Time
+			10:00	-	MPT	2000 Dec 23
+			10:00	-	ChST	# Chamorro Standard Time
diff --git a/checktab.awk b/checktab.awk
@@ -12,15 +12,6 @@ BEGIN {
 	# A special (and we hope temporary) case.
 	tztab["America/Montreal"] = 1
 
-	# Some more special cases; these are zones that should probably
-	# be turned into links.
-	if (zone_table == "zone1970.tab") {
-	  tztab["America/Antigua"] = 1
-	  tztab["America/Cayman"] = 1
-	  tztab["Pacific/Midway"] = 1
-	  tztab["Pacific/Saipan"] = 1
-	}
-
 	while (getline <iso_table) {
 		iso_NR++
 		if ($0 ~ /^#/) continue

diff --git a/northamerica b/northamerica
@@ -2524,13 +2524,8 @@ Zone America/Santa_Isabel	-7:39:28 -	LMT	1922 Jan  1  0:20:32
 ###############################################################################
 
 # Anguilla
-# See America/Port_of_Spain.
-
 # Antigua and Barbuda
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	America/Antigua	-4:07:12 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
-			-5:00	-	EST	1951
-			-4:00	-	AST
+# See America/Port_of_Spain.
 
 # Bahamas
 #
@@ -2597,10 +2592,7 @@ Zone Atlantic/Bermuda	-4:19:18 -	LMT	1930 Jan  1  2:00 # Hamilton
 			-4:00	US	A%sT
 
 # Cayman Is
-# Zone	NAME		GMTOFF	RULES	FORMAT	[UNTIL]
-Zone	America/Cayman	-5:25:32 -	LMT	1890     # Georgetown
-			-5:07:11 -	KMT	1912 Feb # Kingston Mean Time
-			-5:00	-	EST
+Link America/Panama America/Cayman
 
 # Costa Rica
 

diff --git a/southamerica b/southamerica
@@ -1604,6 +1604,7 @@ Zone America/Port_of_Spain -4:06:04 -	LMT	1912 Mar 2
 
 # These all agree with Trinidad and Tobago since 1970.
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Anguilla
+Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Antigua
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Dominica
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Grenada
 Link America/Port_of_Spain America/Guadeloupe