Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing historical data
Tobias Conradi <tc@tobiasconradi.com> Fri, 24 October 2014 18:28 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing historical data
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On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > Lester Caine wrote: >> >> I would probably view this as optional, EXCEPT that if one takes the >> situation of a simple device which is also creating a log of it's data >> now correctly using UTC timestamps, what is "now correctly"? >> it also needs to log any change in >> version of data set used while creating that log. > > > That's not needed in the simple devices that I help maintain. They log UTC. > > If devices need to put local time into a log for some reason, then they can > log the UTC offset. That is simpler and more reliable than logging the tz > version number would be. Why is that more reliable? Can there be different offsets for one version of a collection of time zone data? Since you are the maintainer of the IANA time zone database, could it be that you only talk about the IANA TZDB and such behaviour is a specificity of the IANA time zone database? -- Tobias Conradi Rheinsberger Str. 18 10115 Berlin Germany http://tobiasconradi.com
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- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… Tobias Conradi
- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… Lester Caine
- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… Tobias Conradi
- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… Paul Eggert
- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… Tobias Conradi
- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… Lester Caine
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- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Lester Caine
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- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Lester Caine
- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Doug Royer
- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Cyrus Daboo
- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Lester Caine
- Re: [Tzdist] [tzdist] #32 (service): managing his… tzdist issue tracker
- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Daniel Migault
- Re: [Tzdist] Fwd: [tzdist] #32 (service): managin… Lester Caine
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