Lester Caine wrote:
On 15/02/16 09:07, Paul Eggert wrote:
Tue Jul 1 12:31:27 LST 2014 Mon Feb 15 03:18:46 LST 2016 Sat Jul 1 23:51:21 LST 2017 Presume you meant LDT for July?
No; given the proposed patch, Astrakhan has not observed DST since October 2010. It just keeps changing its mind about its standard-time UTC offset.
The one thing I still find a major problem is the fact that dates which involve a daylight saving element are not easy to identify.
This is a feature more than it is a bug. Too often we invent the tm_isdst flag: that is, the flag is a property of tzdata that is in tzdata primarily because the database format requires a value for it. In these cases it's better to avoid propagating this invention into old-style time stamps like 'date' output in the C locale. This sort of thing is rarely an issue in well-settled locales typical of North America and western Europe, but it is a problem elsewhere, often in the regions where we don't want to be inventing abbreviations either.