[tz] OpenJDK/CLDR/ICU/Joda issues with Ireland change

[Paul Eggert]

On 01/26/2018 04:10 PM, Yoshito Umaoka wrote:
>
> > > The new version v2018c is only good for OpenJDK when handling Ireland
> > > now in year 2018.
> >
> > Yes, this is a known issue with CLDR, discussed here:
> >
> > https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2018-January/025974.html
> >
> > which says that CLDR doesn't worry about timestamps before 1990.
>
> Well, above statement is not accurate.
> CLDR does not provide any zone names only used before 1990.

Thanks for correcting that. I should have written "time zone names 
before 1990" instead of "timestamps before 1990". This correction 
doesn't solve Meno Hochschild's problem, unfortunately.