[tz] Fractional seconds in zic input

Bradley White bww at acm.org
Tue Feb 6 04:25:16 UTC 2018


On Mon, Feb 5, 2018 at 10:31 PM, Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
>     utc_offset == local_time - utc_time
>
> This is an algebraic equation that _must_ be true.
>

That presumes that "utc_time", "local_time", and "utc_offset" are useful
concepts.  Jettison them and the problem goes away.
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