Stephen Colebourne said:
Yep, LMT is clearly dodgy, but its the best we have. The core problem is what does the tzdb say that the offset was for times before the earliest zone.
I would suggest that we need a flag saying "standard time starts here" with the implication that times before that point are LMT; UIs would then have to ask for the *actual* location, not just the biggest city, to determine what LMT is. (For example, Great Britain is one zone in the database, and has always been one zone since GMT was adopted. But before that each town used its own LMT and there were lawsuits hinging in the difference. You even see public clocks with two minutes hands - one GMT and one LMT.) -- Clive D.W. Feather | If you lie to the compiler, Email: clive@davros.org | it will get its revenge. Web: http://www.davros.org | - Henry Spencer Mobile: +44 7973 377646