[tz] Proposed reversions, for moving forward

Derick Rethans tz at derickrethans.nl
Sat Aug 9 10:18:00 UTC 2014


On Fri, 8 Aug 2014, Paul Eggert wrote:

> Lester Caine wrote:
>
> > The whole point of regression tests is to establish why something 
> > changed and check that every change is more correct than the last.
> 
> Yes, absolutely.  I can't decipher that regression-test output either, 
> but Derick said it was due to 2014f's time zone abbreviation changes; 
> these affect past, current and future time stamps, and are independent 
> of the changes that removed questionable old data.

Indeed. I will have a look whether there is been other bugs reported 
that were not just because of abbreviation changes.

cheers,
Derick


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