[tz] McMurdo/South Pole

[Jaakko Hyvätti]

A concrete example: "Exactly two years before McMurdo was established, 
blaa blaa seems to have happened there."  It is reasonable to have that 
two years before return something reasonable in local time too.  I think 
the 2013e version is more reasonable output.

2013d

$ TZ=Antarctica/McMurdo date
Mon Sep 23 18:56:23 NZST 2013
$ TZ=Antarctica/McMurdo date -d '59 years ago'
Thu Sep 23 18:56:24 zzz 1954

2013e

$ TZ=Antarctica/McMurdo date
Mon Sep 23 18:57:52 NZST 2013
$ TZ=Antarctica/McMurdo date -d '59 years ago'
Thu Sep 23 18:57:55 NZST 1954

Regards,
Jaakko


>On Sep 22, 2013, at 9:57 PM, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
>> A similar situation has now been created in the PHP API, which has also 
>> been switched to using TZ as the 'bible' when it comes to DST 
>> information. So the above statement applies ... except that the TZ data 
>> needs to return 'invalid' when a request is made that it can not
>> process.

On Sun, 22 Sep 2013, Guy Harris wrote:
> Such as any request for information given a date/time prior to the 
> establishment of some form of standard time in the specified tzdb zone.

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