[tz] [english 100%] Re: Irish Standard Time vs Irish Summer Time

[Steffen Nurpmeso]

Meno Hochschild <mhochschild at gmx.de> wrote:
  ...
 |By the way, my lib Time4J which parses the tz-sources to compile a 
 |distribution would have crashed if I had not watched this mailing list 
 |and prepared for the Ireland case in 2018a. And the necessary compiler 
 |and tzdata changes were not so trivial because I had also to care about 
 |the winter/summer-format described before.

My Timezone::RuleDat also used an unsigned 16-bit for .savesec.

--steffen
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