24:00 versus 23:59:59--another possibility

[Tim Thornton]

As one who doesn't use zic, my preference is to do it "properly" with 24:00
- but other non-zic based users may have problems with this.
Perhaps the best thing is to use 24:00 but to comment it forusers of old zic
releases or other users for whom this causes a problem?
Tim

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-----Original Message-----
From: Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] [mailto:olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov] 
Sent: 28 April 2009 12:54
To: tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov
Subject: 24:00 versus 23:59:59--another possibility


Yet another possibility is to add a special case to zic to treat instances
of 23:59:59 as if they were 24:00; this lets us use 23:59:59 in input files
to make pre-1998 versions of zic happy and to get correct-to-the-second
results out of post-2009 versions of zic.

        --ado