[tz] Preparing to fork tzdb
Clive D.W. Feather
clive at davros.org
Fri Sep 24 14:53:27 UTC 2021
Kevin Kenny said:
> On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 8:30 AM Clive D.W. Feather via tz
> <[1]tz at iana.org> wrote:
>
> Therefore any argument that they should be two or three zones
> instead needs
> to be based on some *other* objective requirement. Which, I suspect,
> needs
> to be *added* to the present policies rather than just handwaved.
> Such
> requirements could be:
> * Never abolish a zone once it's got into the default setup.
>
> I could live with this.
[...]
Just to be clear, I'm not arguing for or against any of the possible
requirements I listed. I was just making the point that they're *new*
requirements and need to have group consensus, or at least solid group
discussion, before being adopted.
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