[tz] Proposal: validation text file with releases

Howard Hinnant howard.hinnant at gmail.com
Sat Jul 25 16:19:31 UTC 2015


On Jul 25, 2015, at 12:15 PM, Howard Hinnant <howard.hinnant at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Jul 25, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Jon Skeet <skeet at pobox.com> wrote:
>> 
>> I've now changed the format on github to the one Howard proposed, updating the data on http://nodatime.org/tzvalidate (still uploading) and the various tools.
>> Now that we (by default) include all the data available before the cutoff point (2035 by default) this hopefully removes at least some of the concerns Paul raised earlier, too.
>> 
> 
> <nitpick> The validation file is slightly more human-readable if instead of:
> 
> Africa/Accra
> Initially: -00:00:52 standard LMT
> 1918-01-01T00:00:52Z +00:00:00 standard GMT
> 1920-09-01T00:00:00Z +00:20:00 daylight GHST
> 1920-12-30T23:40:00Z +00:00:00 standard GMT
>> 
> You have:
> 
> Africa/Accra
> Initially:           -00:00:52 standard LMT
> 1918-01-01T00:00:52Z +00:00:00 standard GMT
> 1920-09-01T00:00:00Z +00:20:00 daylight GHST
> 1920-12-30T23:40:00Z +00:00:00 standard GMT
>> 
> I.e. put spaces after “Initially:” to line up the offset information.

I should’ve added:   Aside from this minor formatting issue, I get identical results for tzdata2015e-tzvalidate using http://howardhinnant.github.io/tz.html.

Howard



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