This supports countries located across multiple continents, as per the zone1970.tab file. This only affects Cyprus and Türkiye at the moment.
The patch only handles a single extra continent, even though the file format supports multiple ones; in practice this capability is not used in zone1970.tab as of today. Therefore I believe this change is a net positive for now, as it fixes an issue reported by a user from Cyprus.
PR: #236874
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