On 6 February 2018 at 16:37, Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com> wrote:
On Feb 6, 4:51pm, mark@macchiato.com (=?UTF-8?B?TWFyayBEYXZpcyDimJXvuI8=?=) wrote: -- Subject: Re: [tz] tzdata source compatibility
| A 1 year expiration date is crazy. Look at the discussion of SAVE; it is | impossible to update all devices that consume the data in that timeframe. | Most have a mechanism for taking new data, but not new code.
This is for the parsers. One would hope that the devices don't parse the tzdata source files!
Joda-Time is downloaded over 3 and a half million times each month (a conservative estimate). Each copy has a time-zone parser that the downloader can use on the tzdb source files. While the base parser can indeed be fixed for a change, that doesn't fix the millions of copies already downloaded. Stephen