Theory - zone creation description wrong
Jaakko Hyvätti
jaakko.hyvatti at foreca.com
Wed Sep 14 05:53:17 UTC 2011
Maybe replace "country" with "ISO-3166-1 code"? Makes it not our problem
to define country.. :-)
On Tue, 13 Sep 2011, Mr tobias conradi wrote:
> As far as I can see tzcode2011i/Theory is missing the fact
> that for each country at least one zone is created.
>
> I.e. maybe Luxembourg and France may have their own zones
> not due to different timestamp observance since
> 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC but simply due to the fact
> that they are different countries.
>
> CURRENT
> "the world is partitioned into regions whose clocks all agree
> about time stamps that occur after the somewhat-arbitrary cutoff point
> of the POSIX Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC). For each such region,
> the database records all known clock transitions, and labels the region
> with a notable location."
>
> PROPOSED
> "the world is partitioned into regions, named zones, whose clocks all agree
> about time stamps that occur after the somewhat-arbitrary cutoff point
> of the POSIX Epoch (1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC).
> Additional for each country at least one zone is created. For each zone,
> the database records all known clock transitions, and labels the zone
> with a notable location.
>
>
>
> --
> Tobias Conradi
> Rheinsberger Str. 18
> 10115 Berlin, Germany
>
> http://tobiasconradi.com
>
>
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