[tz] DB incoherence

Zefram zefram at fysh.org
Tue Apr 7 21:24:56 UTC 2020


Americo Mendes wrote:
>When you list the rules, i suppose that they must be in chronological
>order,

No, that's not a requirement of the file format.  We conventionally list
the rules of each set in as close to chronological order as possible,
to aid human comprehension, but in situations such as the one you noticed
with Haiti there is no simple chronological ordering.

-zefram


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