[PATCH] Remove locale timezone information
keld@keldix.com
keld@keldix.com
Wed Aug 5 13:00:00 GMT 2015
On Wed, Aug 05, 2015 at 02:27:04PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> keld@keldix.com writes:
>
> > Furthermore, Olsen TZ data does not allow for DST changes over years, while the
> > locale timezone data do allow this, providing correct time display for
> > also older data, including in the USA, where the DST change was changed from
> > end of September to end of October at some point. This also
> > happened many places in Europe.
>
> ??? It's exactly the other way round. The POSIX timezone has no
> history.
True, POSIX has no history, but I was talking about ISO TR 14652 and 30112, which have history.
And I see that Olson tx data has history, but not in a format compatible with POSIX TZ.
best regards
keld
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