[tz] Magallanes region from Chile will keep DST all year round

[Deborah Goldsmith]

Why? If it’s unimportant to release this change early, why can’t people just wait before they turn the crank if they don’t care about it? Organizations with short lead times are free to wait until just before the change; organizations with longer lead times or additional requirements will have the data in order to deliver it when they need to.

Looking at it from a different perspective, what are the criteria for when to make a release and when not to?

Debbie

> On Jan 23, 2017, at 4:23 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at CS.UCLA.EDU> wrote:
> 
> On 01/23/2017 03:55 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
>> This also requires getting the ICU team to release updated metazone data for an unreleased IANA snapshot. This is a lot of work on multiple people’s parts to save having to turn the crank on a TZ release.
> 
> Many different cranks have to be turned whenever a new TZ release is
> made, not only by IANA but also by downstream developers and
> distributors. Surely this is more work overall than a one-time minor
> change to ICU's procedure so that they can base their effort on tz
> snapshot Y instead of release X.
>