Re: [Tzdist] How should tzdist support rscale?

Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> Tue, 06 January 2015 15:41 UTC

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On 06/01/15 15:24, Cyrus Daboo wrote:
> At this point, I think the use of non-Gregorian rules in VTIMEZONE
> should not be ruled out, but tzdist does not need to support it until we
> have publishers actually wanting to use it. Of course at that point
> things will get tricky for the publisher as they will want to keep the
> Gregorian rules around for backwards compatibility.

version takes care of that on one level, but just as the binary TZ data
uses different TZid's for with or without leapseconds, calendar would
potentially become part of the id? Essentially which ever method of
describing a data set is used it has to match every other method?

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