Oct. 16, 2014
2:42 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 16, 2014, at 10:32, Paul_Koning@dell.com wrote:
There is no way to automate this. The source material for the TZ database is human action — mostly the decisions of politicians, made up when they feel like it and announced anywhere from years to minutes ahead of time. The only possible way to update the TZ database is to find news about those actions, translate them from legalese into TZ syntax, and edit the database text.
paul
No, I think he's suggesting having people manually set their clocks, and then to build the rules for showing past timestamps retroactively by collecting data from their manually set clocks. It's a ridiculous idea, but not for the reasons you are saying.