FW: IANA time zone registration - proposal

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Thu Feb 3 19:28:59 UTC 2005


Paul Eggert wrote:

> However -- in case this comes up -- as far as I know we have never
> relied on their case-sensitivity, and there are no plans to do so.

...which is a good thing, given that in the Olson code they're file 
names, and in OS X, which uses the Olson code, the files are probably 
going to be stored on a case-insensitive HFS+ file system.

(Not that any good reason to rely on the case-sensitivity comes to mind 
in any case.)



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