[tz] Typo in africa timezone file

"" lord.buddha at gmail.com
Thu Sep 11 04:45:56 UTC 2014


The relatively new use of 24:00 for a transition time is less than
ideal.     While zic can be unambiguous in its interpretation, it is just
an interpretation even if that interpretation is correct/authoritative.
The data is published and interpreted by other applications too and or read
by humans.

To me the instant 2015-05-13 24:00 actually means 2015-05-14 00:00....
The instance 2015-05-13 24:00 does not really exist because at the very
instant you roll over to 00:00 on the next date.   But this is not zic's
interpretation ?

Currently we have just Africa/Cairo and Asia/Dhaka using 24:00 as a
transition time.   Should not these be updated to avoid 24:00 and the
ambiguity that arises.

Because of this ambiguity, as an international airline, we never schedule
any flights to depart of arrive at midnight (00:00 or 24:00).

Anyway, the use of 24:00 _seems_ to have broken the JodaTime library.



On 4 September 2014 06:15, Marcel Telka <marcel at telka.sk> wrote:

> In https://www.ietf.org/timezones/data/africa I found the following lines:
>
> # From Gunther Vermier (2015-05-13):
> # our Egypt office confirms that the change will be at 15 May "midnight"
> (24:00)
>
> I think the timestamp (2015-05-13) is not correct there.
> Should it say 2014-05-13 instead?
>
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