May 3, 2007
2:16 p.m.
At this point there are time zone source files out in the wild in which "Rule" lines appear after "Zone" lines that reference the associated rules. That being true, time zone source parsers should be prepared to cope with such files. And THAT being true, we should probably leave some "out-of-order" stuff in the canonical files to ensure that folks creating alternate parsers will include the capability to handle "out-of-order" stuff. --ado