[tz] Java TZDB compiler

Marcos Passos marcospassos.com at gmail.com
Sat Jan 26 23:43:08 UTC 2019


Thanks for clarifying it, Stephen.

- Marcos

Em sáb, 26 de jan de 2019 às 21:06, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne at joda.org>
escreveu:

> I assume I added that comment through trial and error. ie. the code
> didn't work without adding the year. Sadly I don't remember any more
> details.
> Stephen
>
>
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2019 at 20:13, Marcos Passos <marcospassos.com at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > The Java TZDB compiler models transitions in terms of historical
> transitions and transition rules. All transition rules start one year after
> the latest year among the unbounded rules in the TZDB database for a given
> zone.
> >
> > Reading the docs, I found the following explanation about that extra
> year:
> >
> >> Also add one more year to avoid weird case where penultimate year has
> odd offset.
> >
> >
> > Does anyone know what does it mean and in which cases does it occur?
> >
> > - Marcos
>
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