Jan. 23, 2017
7:23 p.m.
On 01/23/2017 03:55 PM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
This also requires getting the ICU team to release updated metazone data for an unreleased IANA snapshot. This is a lot of work on multiple people’s parts to save having to turn the crank on a TZ release.
Many different cranks have to be turned whenever a new TZ release is made, not only by IANA but also by downstream developers and distributors. Surely this is more work overall than a one-time minor change to ICU's procedure so that they can base their effort on tz snapshot Y instead of release X.