[tz] tzdata isstd question
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu Oct 29 20:14:35 UTC 2015
On 10/29/2015 12:53 PM, Ken Murchison wrote:
> Zone America/Atikokan -6:06:28 - LMT 1895
> -6:00 Canada C%sT 1940 Sep 29
> -6:00 1:00 CDT 1942 Feb 9 2:00s
> -6:00 Canada C%sT 1945 Sep 30 2:00
> -5:00 - EST
>
>
> I'm wondering why the transition on Feb 9, 1942 isn't flagged as being
> observed at standard time in the compiled tzfile.
Sorry, I must be missing something, but I am not following the question.
For that absolute transition, there's no difference between 02:00
standard time, 03:00 local time, and 08:00 UTC; they're all the same
thing, and the "s" in "2:00s" is purely for convenience in the source data.
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