Stephen Colebourne wrote:
All right you can reduce 440 zones down to 300 or so, but all of the
original 440 names still need to be available, and in these days does saving a few bytes really matter? 'Simplification' of access is more to do with showing the appropriate subset of options by the application and historical ones may actually be the correct answer. So the data should be as complete a record of the 'best available current and historical information' that we have! Providing a version of the data that will be WRONG for some users is not an option?
If you have extra data for an existing zone ID I'd suggest proposing a patch (with evidence). Such patches have been accepted in the past. I suspect that other locations (that only differ pre-1970) would be better discussed and documented elsewhere.
You have already answered this yourself ;) Standard time starting at different times for combined zones is - I think - the broken bit? The new documentation I've gathered is sitting with Joseph for the UK history page but it may be years before it's actually included :( It only pins down a couple of dates and confirms existing facts. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk