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Re: [Tzdist] Next step

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Tue, 20 October 2015 19:08 UTC

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Tim Parenti wrote:
> Implementations in this area might endeavor to distinguish between "borders
> that potentially matter" and "borders that definitely don't matter", which
> seems a tenuous distinction.

On my list of tzdata things to do is to add a file zonenow.tab, which would be 
like zone1970.tab except with the cutoff being now, i.e., it would partition the 
world into regions where civil-time clocks agree from now into the predicted 
future (but may disagree in the past). A server that wants to cater only to 
current and future timestamps could limit itself to zones in zonenow.tab.

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