[tz] attic data for the tz database

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Thu Aug 29 18:37:39 UTC 2013


On 29 August 2013 18:51, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> How does the extension choose which of the alternate pre-1970 (or
> whatever) histories to use?  For example, suppose America/Toronto
> and America/Montreal are the same after 1970, so zic makes them
> links.  Which pre-1970 history does it use, Toronto's or Montreal's?

Thats the key question here isn't it?

For example, why did you choose to keep America/Panama's historic data
and delete America/Atikokon's? Why not the other way around?

Stephen



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