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).

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Joseph S. Myers
jsm@polyomino.org.uk