[tz] Version in zoneinfo files?
Paul Goyette
paul at whooppee.com
Fri Feb 10 01:45:11 UTC 2017
On Thu, 9 Feb 2017, Paul Eggert wrote:
> It seems so -- at least under the proposals I've seen so far, as if
> consumers are running software derived from tzcode, they would need
> to upgrade, as otherwise the code would mishandle some timestamps. I
> haven't looked at non-tzcode-derived libraries but I expect many
> would be similar. We'd rather avoid this, of course.
While avoiding a version bump is desirable, it's not always possible.
It seems to me that the pain of a version bump could be ameliorated by
having both
* new code able to read and process both old and new versions, and
* zic growing a new option to produce either old or new "compiled"
versions of the zone files (default version TBD)
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