[tz] draft of change summary for next tz release

Russ Allbery rra at stanford.edu
Tue Sep 17 23:10:24 UTC 2013


David Patte ₯ <dpatte at relativedata.com> writes:

> And some of us prefer having at least one zone for each ISO 3166-1 
> country. Several of us understood the old theory file to require
> this. 1970 is an arbitrary computer geek cutoff point, with not much
> meaning to general time zone history.

None of these proposed changes make the database any better or worse in
this regard so far as I can tell.

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Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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