Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil
Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sun, 11 October 2015 22:24 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil
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>>> tzdb should only be published with a >>> 1970 start date and anything prior to that is unreliable >> >No, many tzdata entries before 1970 are quite reliable. True, tzdata >> >entries tend to become less reliable the further back one goes in time, >> >but this is merely a tendency. For example, the data for England in >> >1915 is far more reliable than the data for Baja California state in 2015. > 'MANY' ... but there is data in backzone Sure, but backzone is published as part of tzdata, and it's easy to use; just set a switch in the Makefile. And regardless of whether backzone is used, there's no good reason to require implementations to reject time stamps before 1970.
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Paul Eggert
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Paul Eggert
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Lester Caine
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil lester
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Paul Eggert
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Lester Caine
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Paul Eggert
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Lester Caine
- Re: [Tzdist] [tz] Timezone in Brazil Doug Royer