On Fri, Apr 18, 2014, at 18:55, Brian Inglis wrote:
Not all the world's a file timestamp, to paraphrase Henry Spencer. Real property systems have to handle dates from previous centuries. Systems dealing with people have to be able to handle date/time stamps from decades to more than a century in the past and the future. Financial trading systems have to be able to handle sub-ms current times and time frames of decades for stock holdings and long term investments. Many of these are now built on top of the date/time handling infrastructure provided by this project.
A) I'm not convinced either of the applications you named need old historical offsets either. Make a case for the property systems you mentioned requiring measuring how many hours and minutes old something is. B) Zone.tab isn't relevant to those things. The only thing zone.tab is used for is configuring the timezone of a system's clock. People who need the historically-differing timezones _can go looking for them_, people who don't need them shouldn't have them shoved in their faces.