I actually don't use the LMT value in tz, so I am not personally concerned if it is lost, but I do use the date and time that the city moved from LMT, which would be a shame to lose. On 2013-09-09 17:00, Clive D.W. Feather wrote:
Derick Rethans said:
This removes LMT etc for Vaduz, resulting in data loss. Please don't remove data. I disagree.
The LMT figures are nonsense, since they apply only to a narrow stripe within each zone. I'd like to see them all removed.
Rather, we should have markers of when zonal times, as opposed to LMT, first came into effect. For places where we know the legal change point, such as the UK, this is a "happened at" date-time. For places where we don't, it's a "happened sometime before" date-time, and we probably want a way to distinguish these.
But don't put LMT values in the files; remove the ones that are there.
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