Theory - zone creation description wrong
Mr tobias conradi
tobias_conradi at yahoo.de
Wed Sep 14 16:27:22 UTC 2011
That would not result in a correct description of the current practice, since a
code change like ZR->CD did not result in the creation of a new zone.
Also note, that there are three sets of ISO 3166-1 codes, they do not
share the same code creation rules.
Tobias Conradi
> 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.
>>
>>
>>
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