I firmly agree with this. The way to implement Irish standard time is the way it has always been implemented: it is simply the names that would be changed to call one of them standard and one not. I also agree with Stephen Colebourne: the focus should be on small, stable updates, not potentially destabilizing "cleanups". Mark On Thu, Jan 18, 2018 at 2:01 PM, Joseph Myers <jsm@polyomino.org.uk> wrote:
It should be noted that a few other countries have also used winter time, according to <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_time_(clock_lag)> (but I agree with the argument that tm_isdst is best defined as indicating whether the clocks are advanced compared to time used for the rest of the year, *not* based on whether the wording of the laws in question defines one time as standard and the other as a variation from it - there's no reason laws need to define one time as standard and the other as a variation at all).
-- Joseph S. Myers jsm@polyomino.org.uk