[tz] [PATCH] New file 'pre1970' for zones that differ only in pre-1970 time stamps.

Stephen Colebourne scolebourne at joda.org
Sat Aug 31 09:37:02 UTC 2013


On 31 August 2013 01:22, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Zefram wrote:
>> Would you be interested in a patch for this from me?
>
> I would, yes.  What sort of thing did you have in mind?
> We do need to retain backward compatibility of the data,
> as per recent discussion.

Personally, I'm fine with the addition of filtering to allow zic users
to reduce their data set. I'd strongly argue such filtering should be
optional, and the default should be as it is now.

Stephen



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