Time format error in Olson TZ rules for Asia

Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov
Tue Apr 27 13:46:06 UTC 2010


> ...perhaps we should add a
> little more generalisation (somehow) to handle more odd cases like this
> so we have distributed code that can handle it, well before any government
> decides to do something like
> 
> 	at 02:00 on the Friday after the last Thursday in March

For this particular case, I've jumped in my time machine and changed the timezone compiler so that a rule such as...

	Rule whatever 2010 max - Mar Fri>=26 2:00 1:00 D

...does the right thing.

				--ado
	





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