May 22, 2021
9:41 p.m.
John Hawkinson via tz <tz@iana.org> writes:
Tom Lane via tz <tz@iana.org> wrote on Sat, 22 May 2021 at 16:56:53 EDT in <282540.1621717013@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
As long as we're considering decreasing the historical fidelity of assorted pre-1970 timestamps, I'd like to make a modest suggestion: forget all the "LMT" offsets for years before
It seems to me tha tthese kinds of changes are not a good idea. They amount to unnecessary churn for minimal benefit. For one thing, it means any extant (pre-1970 or whatever) affected timestamps in these zones will randomly shift, and that's not something we really want to do. There's not a lot of this, presumably, but it's nonzero.
Agreed, but then why are the changes Paul is proposing okay? regards, tom lane