[tz] zoneinfo generating issues

Steve Allen sla at ucolick.org
Sun Mar 7 01:27:39 UTC 2021


On Sat 2021-03-06T15:54:42-0800 Guy Harris via tz hath writ:
> After all, we don't truncate the files at the date/time when they're
> generated, given that we have no guarantee that there will be no
> changes in the future to the offset from UTC, or the DST rules, for a
> given tzdb region....

The way the crust is rotating now it is likely that jurisdiction(s)
will change time zone rule(s) before there is another leap second.

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