On Thu, 19 Sep 2013, Lester Caine wrote:
Alan Barrett wrote:
Of course, any OS vendor can do its own separation of changes into different categories, and merge only the uncontroversial tzdata changes into OS release branches. The question has never come up before, for NetBSD, because we have not been aware of such controversial changes before.
I have to ask ... where do you stand on omitting pre-1972 data?
In the short term, I think that the tz project should stick to the existing practice of using 1970 as a cutoff date. In the long term, think that the tz project should attempt to provide as much high-quality data as is reasonably feasible, and that users of the tz data should have the ability to "winnow" and install only a subset of the data. Here, users of the tz data includes OS vendors, appliance vendors, other software projects, software packagers, system administrators, and end users. --apb (Alan Barrett)