On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 12:18 AM, Paul Goyette <pgoyette@juniper.net> wrote:
Wow! Indeed.
Everyone argues that the current situation is untenable No, the TZ Coordinator and some other people voted to keep the current situation.
(and threaten to trigger a fork) Even less than those that want to change the current situation, did /mention/ a fork..
because the current abbreviations aren't in common usage. No, the reason is because the current set of abbreviations contains EST and CST which during DST are used to refer to two different offsets each and are thus ambiguous.
Yet the first proposed update tries to invent a whole new set of heretofore unseen abbreviations? I don't know what you mean by "first proposed update", since the bug is open since 2006.
The first patch that I can see did not "try to invent a whole new set of heretofore unseen abbreviations", but did indeed introduce a subset with possibly one (LHHT) or two (LHDT) unseen abbreviations: LHST/LHDT/LHHT - Lord Howe A set for which David Grosz made a change proposal and that has been addressed in the very email you just replied to. The relevant parts are kept below.
Absurd! Your comment? I think you just didn't read and write carefully.
-----Original Message----- From: tz-bounces@iana.org [mailto:tz-bounces@iana.org] On Behalf Of Tobias Conradi Sent: Monday, April 08, 2013 3:07 PM To: David Grosz Cc: tz@iana.org mailing list Subject: Re: [tz] Patched file australasia - time point unique abbreviations for Australia
Thanks for the feedback. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 10:52 PM, David Grosz <david@dlg.com.au> wrote:
I don't suggest to be an authority on this subject but I wish to discuss three points: ... 2. For Lord Howe's daylight saving time, could we just report AEDT as it's the same time as Sydney, Canberra, etc? Oh yes. Will have to look how to do this. That would also eliminate H = Half hour saving. LH specific DST code would be needed for 1981 to 1984 when saving was one hour.
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