[tz] Java & Rearguard

Clive D.W. Feather clive at davros.org
Thu May 30 18:57:32 UTC 2019


Stephen Colebourne said:
> The practical differences are what
> the API says is the base offset and what the API says is daylight
> time.
> 
> Where this debate goes wrong is emails that assert tzdb's choice to
> follow the legal definition is the only possible choice. It isn't.

But it *is* following the definition of "daylight time". It's just that
that doesn't match what you thought it was.

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