Re: drums2?

[Bruce Lilly <[e-mail]>]

Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote:
> It seems safe to assume, then, that the range of time zones will remain
> greater than 24 hours in the near future. 199 hours (the range supported
> by 2822) is much bigger than the current requirement of 27 hours, but what
> should the limit be? 28? 30? 48? 49?

Slightly greater than 24 hours; see the comments in the file
"australasia" from the tar archive mentioned earlier,
particularly at the end of that file -- 26 hours currently,
27 if one includes zones in effect back to 1973.

I believe it suffices to require:
1. that the offset specified correspond to some established
    time zone in effect at the specified date-time, leaving
    the range subject as it is to the whims of politicians
2. that the "minutes" part be in the range 00 through 59
    (2822 seems to permit +9899, for example).

At least such requirements would preclude nonsense that
can't be correlated to a real time zone.  Frankly, I don't
think the offset conveys much useful information, anyway