[tz] [PATCH 2/3] Replace some zones with links when that doesn't lose non-LMT info.

Lester Caine lester at lsces.co.uk
Wed Sep 4 19:43:18 UTC 2013


Steve Allen wrote:
> On Wed 2013-09-04T11:01:24 -0700, Paul Eggert hath writ:
>> >  But ordinary
>> >users won't care that time stamps in Aruba on February 12,
>> >1912 from 04:35:47 to 04:40:24 UTC will have a UTC offset
>> >that differs by a few minutes.  They just won't.
> I request caution in making it clear to ordinary users that the name
> UTC cannot be proleptically extended to dates prior to 1960.
> No such concept existed in contemporary records.

Being pedantic :)
1963 ... But none of the sources actually quote the date for Recommendation 374 :(

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