[tz] So, about those LMT offsets

Tom Lane tgl at sss.pgh.pa.us
Sat May 22 21:41:51 UTC 2021


John Hawkinson via tz <tz at iana.org> writes:
> Tom Lane via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote on Sat, 22 May 2021
> at 16:56:53 EDT in <282540.1621717013 at sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> As long as we're considering decreasing the historical fidelity
>> of assorted pre-1970 timestamps, I'd like to make a modest
>> suggestion: forget all the "LMT" offsets for years before

> It seems to me tha tthese kinds of changes are not a good idea.
> They amount to unnecessary churn for minimal benefit.
> For one thing, it means any extant (pre-1970 or whatever) affected timestamps in these zones will randomly shift, and that's not something we really want to do. There's not a lot of this, presumably, but it's nonzero.

Agreed, but then why are the changes Paul is proposing okay?

			regards, tom lane


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