On 2013-04-11 17:53, Dennis Ferguson wrote:
I would note, however, that the proposed patch doesn't just limit itself to reducing the ambiguity of future timestamps not yet recorded, it also changes the database information about the abbreviations used for historical timestamps produced by the TZ database. While the issue of what time zone abbreviations people in Australia might have preferred to use is for others to debate there can be no dispute about the abbreviations the TZ database has used for the last 20 years, nor is there any way to change that, but by altering that data one is effectively removing the information about the history of the database itself that one would need to know to interpret timestamps already recorded with the "unwitting use" of the TZ database.
That's all the more reason to add the 'A' prefix to the new abbreviations, I think, just so it's easier to tell if an old date string is using the old abbreviation or the new one. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-