Date: Wed, 2 May 2012 08:36:53 +0200 From: Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> Message-ID: <20120502063653.GC8853@apb-laptoy.apb.alt.za> | Sorry, it's still incomprehensible to me. (I am skipping over the | Russian text, and reading only the English parts.) I'm with Alan, I've read the messages a few times now, and I don't have the vaguest idea what was requested to be changed, or why. And ... tobias.conradi@gmail.com said: | But anyway, as long as as one of the main maintainers makes up new rules on | the fly ("The first order of business is to ensure that current (2012) time | stamps are handled correctly throughout Russia.") that isn't "making up new rules on the fly" - our primary objective is to have people's clocks display the correct local time for *now*, and after that to be able to correctly translate historical timestamps, and then, as best we are able, guess at reasonable likely conversions of future timestamps. As long as everyone has some TZ value they can set to achieve those objectives, as much as it is possible, then we're mostly done - everything beyond that is just a frill. Note in particular that this project does not provide any kind of mapping service - determining which zone someone should use to get the correct timestamp translations is not our problem - we don't set out to make that needlessly difficult, but nor is that a problem we are attempting to solve. kre