[tz] [PROPOSED] Merge timezones that are alike since 1970

Steffen Nurpmeso steffen at sdaoden.eu
Fri May 28 22:23:47 UTC 2021


Stephen Colebourne wrote in
 <CACzrW9BnYgeYEcnfzDyVB6J4r2i_dZfnCE5jBDC-f6pdbAB+Uw at mail.gmail.com>:
 |This change would make sense if no pre-1970 data was available for any
 |zone (including LMT). But instead what users get is the data of
 |somewhere else.
 |
 |For example, Norway's and Sweden's time zone history is being wiped
 |out in favour of that of Germany. Can no-one here see the political
 |sensitivity in that?

After they were marauding terribly in what is now Germany they
started to instead marry the women ~170 years ago?
(Do not get me started on the French!)

--steffen
|
|Der Kragenbaer,                The moon bear,
|der holt sich munter           he cheerfully and one by one
|einen nach dem anderen runter  wa.ks himself off
|(By Robert Gernhardt)


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