On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 2:13 AM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 05/11/2012 03:36 PM, Garrett Wollman wrote:
The historical practice of the maintainers up to this point has been that locations that are uninhabited do not get a zone.
Yes, the idea is that the tz database attempts to record common real-world practice at a location.
Local time is undefined if there are no locals. Any source for the claim? Vast areas of Siberia without local time?
It's like trying to define the temperature of a true vacuum. What level of discussion is this?
http://www.timegenie.com/country.time/hm reports that the Australian Antarctic Division did succeed to define a time.
A goal of the tz database design is to lessen the need for arguments. Omitting uninhabited locations is one small way to further that goal. They are only omitted sometimes. This is inconsistent.
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