Texas timezone history
Jules Descartes
descartes.jules at gmail.com
Thu Sep 8 20:49:30 UTC 2011
ok, got it, thanks
On Thu, Sep 8, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> On 09/08/11 11:20, Jules Descartes wrote:
> > I think there is an error in the current tzdata/northamerica file
> regarding Texas.
> > It claims that Texas follows America/Chicago.
>
> Typically when there's a comment to that effect in the
> tz database, it's referring only to time stamps starting
> with 1970. If you go back far enough, every city, town,
> and village had its own little time zone, and the tz
> database does not attempt to cover that. Its coverage
> of time stamps before 1970 are only for locations that
> have differed after 1970.
>
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