[tz] Unacceptable recent changes

Petr Machata pmachata at redhat.com
Thu Aug 29 01:35:08 UTC 2013


Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> writes:

> Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org> writes:
>
>> Some systems will automatically map the old "backward" forms of IDs to
>> the "correct" new forms.
>
> How would they even do it?

Actually, yeah, they could.  Java behaves this way, apparently.  As a
last resort it goes on looking for a file with matching contents, so for
one of the links it finds the wrong file.  But that's not new, that
happens with Busingen and Zurych already.

Thanks,
PM


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