[tz] redundant Rule in proposal for Macao
Michael H Deckers
michael.h.deckers at googlemail.com
Tue Jun 26 17:13:43 UTC 2018
In Paul Eggert's proposal for Macao from 2018-05-10, we find
+Rule Macau 1949 1951 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s
1:00 D
+Rule Macau 1951 only - Mar 31 23:00s 1:00 D
with two successive switches to summer time at 1951-03-31 and
1951-04-07.
The later switch has no effect, and can easily be omitted:
+Rule Macau 1949 1950 - Apr Sat>=1 23:00s
1:00 D
There are several similar cases in tzdb where the specification
contains redundant data. For instance,
Rule HK 1965 1976 - Apr Sun>=16 3:30
1:00 S
Rule HK 1973 only - Dec 30 3:30 1:00 S
with two successive switches to summer time at 1973-12-30 and
1974-04-21,
the latter having no effect. In this case, removal of the redundancy
would require an addtional Rule line, so concise notation could be
construed as a reason for retaining the redundancy.
Do we have a guideline for such cases?
Michael Deckers.
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