Re: [tz] Large scale changes proposed in 2014f

Alan Barrett wrote:

The maintenance burden of making similar changes many times when many zones share modern history could be eased by new syntax in the input files

It'd be nice to extend the zic input syntax along those lines, but that's not something we can plausibly do before the next release. And even if we extended zic, we couldn't use the new syntax in the data for several years, because it'd take that long for the zic changes to propagate out to the field. Finally, it isn't much of a maintenance burden to keep the bogus data in the current format; the main problem with the bogus data is that it's bogus, not that it needs formatting.