[tz] So, about those LMT offsets

[John Hawkinson]

Tom Lane via tz <tz at iana.org> wrote on Sat, 22 May 2021
at 16:56:53 EDT in <282540.1621717013 at sss.pgh.pa.us>:

> As long as we're considering decreasing the historical fidelity
> of assorted pre-1970 timestamps, I'd like to make a modest
> suggestion: forget all the "LMT" offsets for years before

It seems to me tha tthese kinds of changes are not a good idea.
They amount to unnecessary churn for minimal benefit.

For one thing, it means any extant (pre-1970 or whatever) affected timestamps in these zones will randomly shift, and that's not something we really want to do. There's not a lot of this, presumably, but it's nonzero.

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