Jan. 25, 2018
4:11 p.m.
On 25 January 2018 at 15:36, Clive D.W. Feather <clive@davros.org> wrote:
If a distributor or other user of TZ doesn't test the test data, then as far as I'm concerned they have absolutely no grounds to complain when real changes break their systems.
As I have outlined in the other thread, just because a parser can parse the TZDB source file, does not mean that there is no problem. The problems occur in the interactions between the many and various systems in the time stack. A test file plays a relatively small role in testing the stack. Stephen