[tz] [PATCH] New file time.tab, superseding zone.tab

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Wed Jul 23 03:33:55 UTC 2014


On 07/20/2014 06:32 AM, Alan Barrett wrote:
>
> 3. Make tzselect.ksh aware of the fact that the longitude difference 
> between the reference location for a time zone, and any other location 
> in the time zone, will seldom exceed 15 degrees, but the latitude 
> difference could be arbitrarily large.

Thanks, something like this sounds like a good idea.  Perhaps a weighted 
sum of the distance and the square of the longitude difference, or 
something like that.  I'll try to come up with something.



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