On Fri, 11 Feb 2000, Oscar van Vlijmen wrote:
Following the thought given by Paul Eggert (Feb. 10): "But is it worth our time to do, given that we'd be duplicating other people's efforts?"
I would like to add:
Looking around, for instance at: [...] http://www.timeanddate.com/ - update: tzdata2000a ?
it can be noticed that it appears very difficult to maintain an up to date timezone converter. At the moment Steffen Thorsen of timeanddate.com spends between 5 and 10 hours weekly maintaining and evolving his site, which is in existence since 1995 (source: http://www.timeanddate.com/steffen/). Very impressive, but for how long from now? Keep in mind that the Olson effort (tzcode & tzdata) exists since 1986.
Now I think it is time for me to clarify a few things: http://www.timeanddate.com/ is based on data from tzdata2000a at the moment, yes. Generally, when tzdata is changed, the site will reflect these changes within a few days, I'll try to update the site as fast as possible, but sometimes I may not read mail for a few days (or weeks during my holiday), and then an update may be delayed. In addition to updates of tzdata, I try to update the data myself, whenever I get any reliable reports that anything is wrong, either from this mailinglist or my users, and sometimes I discover errors on my own as well. I also try to inform this list of any needed changes in tzdata. I've been running the World Clock since 1995, and I hope to continue doing so for many years, although nothing could be guaranteed. Best regards, Steffen -- Steffen Thorsen <steffen@thorsen.priv.no> Author of http://www.timeanddate.com/