[tz] Proposed reversions, for moving forward

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Sat Aug 9 17:52:09 UTC 2014


On Aug 8, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> wrote:

> While some may argue that LMT is a stupid concept, the reality is that
> the database format requires it, and it has been widely relied upon by
> consumers of the data. As such, LMT should be accurate, or technically
> at least accurate for each zone that differs beyond 1970 and for each
> at least one zone per ISO-defined region.

Presumably meaning "accurate for some particular location in each zone...", as a sufficiently-wide zone contains locations whose LMT would differ by a second or more.


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