Re: [Tzdist] Next step

[Tim Parenti <[e-mail]>]

On 20 October 2015 at 15:08, Paul Eggert <[e-mail]> wrote:

> 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.


Good idea.  In a more general sense, this reminds me somewhat of the
"winnow" functionality discussed on tz briefly in 2013
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/thread.html#19741>.
Properly implementing that for tz would possibly require a bit of a
re-architecting on that project. (e.g., How do we indicate which of the
America/Indiana/* zones is the main one if we winnow from, say, 2000?)

Perhaps that's ultimately worthwhile, but I'm not sure where that ranks on
the priority queue of all the possible things tz could be implementing,
especially those which would require some re-architecting anyway...

--
Tim Parenti