[tz] What data should TZDB offer?

Eliot Lear lear at lear.ch
Mon Jun 7 09:21:44 UTC 2021


Hi Stephen,

Without getting into any of the substance of any of the proposals you 
mentioned, a hopefully minor aside:

On 06.06.21 10:08, Stephen Colebourne via tz wrote:
> I acknowledge that the above is a significant change to TZBD, but it
> does more fully align TZDB with the Governmental authorities that
> actually define time zones.

The goal of this database has never been to align to governmental 
authorities, but to express what people in a region think local time 
is.  Let's please not lose sight of that.

Eliot


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