Netherlands Antilles dissolved as of 10 October 2010
Submitted by Sense Hofstede
Link to original bug (#645677)
Description
At 10 October 2010 the former "autonomous Caribbean country within the Kingdom of the Netherlands"[1]—the 'Netherlands Antilles'—was dissolved, as a result of Imperial Law BWBR0028249 ("Rijkswet wijziging Statuut in verband met de opheffing van de Nederlandse Antillen").[2]
This resulted in several changes:
- The islands of Curaçao and Sint Maarten became 'autonomous countries within the Kingdom of the Netherlands' on their own.
- The islands of Saba, Saint Eustatius and Bonaire became a part of the Netherlands itself as 'special municipalities'.
- The currency of the 'Caribbean part' of the Netherlands—I'm not talking about the Kingdom here, but the Netherlands itself within the Kingdom—changed to United States Dollar
- Curaçao was assigned the CW ISO 3166-1 code[3]
- Sint Maarten was assigned the SX ISO 3166-1 code[4]
- The status of the AN ISO 3166-1 code has been changed to 'transitionally reserved'[5]
This will probably require several changes to several GNOME projects. At least in the locations file of libgweather the Netherlands Antilles is still named separately, whereas part should be split in Curaçao and Sint-Maarten and the rest should move to the Netherlands, not the Kingdom but the country within the Kingdom.
The following codes from 'libgweather/plain/data/Locations.xml.in' should be moved to the country of the Netherlands (NL):
- TNCE: Roosevelt Airport, Saint Eustatius
- TNCB: Flamingo Airport, Bonaire
The following code from 'libgweather/plain/data/Locations.xml.in' should be moved to the new country of the Curaçao (CW):
- TNCC: Hato Airport, Curacao
The following code from 'libgweather/plain/data/Locations.xml.in' should be moved to the new country of the Sint Maarten (SX):
- TNCM: Juliana Airport, Saint Maarten
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netherlands_Antilles [2] http://wetten.overheid.nl/BWBR0028249/geldigheidsdatum_01-03-2011 [3] http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm#CW [4] http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm#SX [5] http://www.iso.org/iso/support/country_codes/iso_3166_code_lists/iso-3166-1_decoding_table.htm#AN
English announcement: http://www.government.nl/News/Press_releases_and_news_items/2007/February/Agreement_on_division_of_Netherlands_Antilles