Sept. 24, 2015
8 a.m.
On 09/24/2015 06:50 AM, Alexander Borg wrote:
I don't understand why you combine zones like
+Link Africa/Abidjan Africa/Freetown # Sierra Leone
thus throwing away valuable pre-1970 DST and Zone data.
It's because those data entries were probably invented by Shanks, our unreliable source -- so they were more harmful than valuable. Although there is a temptation to invent data to fill in blank spots, we want to avoid that temptation when this is practical, which was the case here.