[tz] proposed changes: past Altai/Tomsk time zone shifts

Tobias Conradi tobias.conradi at gmail.com
Sun May 6 05:15:35 UTC 2012


>>> So, what is the effect if we put it into the wrong timezone?
>>
>> The database would contain a bug according to tzcode2011i/Theory:  [snip
>> quote from theory file]
>
>
> When somebody asks "what would be wrong?", replying "there would be a bug"
> is not very useful to readers who don't share your viewpoint.
But no one asked on-list "what would be wrong?"

>  It's much
> more useful if you explain why you think there would be a bug,
That's by definition. The effect of putting a part of the world into
the wrong timezone within the timezone database, would be that the
database contains a bug.

>or what you
> think the bug would be,
No one asked that on-list.


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