[tz] wrong Europe/Dublin dst offset rule

[Vicky]

In current version also dst is -ve for europe/dublin

how the dst be negative.. it is always 0 or +1. we are facing issues
because on this..

please correct the dst for europe/dublin.

On Sat, 20 Jan 2018, 03:08 Paul Eggert, <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

> On 01/19/2018 12:53 AM, Vicky wrote:
> >
> > while parsing the data i found the issue in rule Europe/Dublin
> > Negative DST.. Previous version or not in any other file there is no
> > negative dst.
>
> Yes, although negative DST support is required by POSIX and has been in
> tzcode for quite some time, that was the first use of it in tzdata. That
> change was intended to support Irish Standard Time, which is an hour
> ahead of GMT (which Ireland uses in winter). We're planning to back that
> change out temporarily, since we found some issues with it with ICU and
> with OpenJDK.
>
> What software are you using to parse the data files? Has the problem
> been reported to the maintainers of that software?
>
>
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