On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 20:14, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Going forward it’s better to stick with the RFC terminology in internal identifiers. This change does not affect longstanding and standard APIs
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ Rule Algeria 1980 only - Apr 25 0:00 1:00 S Rule Algeria 1980 only - Oct 31 2:00 0 - # Shanks & Pottenger give 0:09:20 for Paris Mean Time; go with Howse's # more precise 0:09:21. -# Zone NAME GMTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL] +# Zone NAME UTOFF RULES FORMAT [UNTIL]
This is clearly a change to the API as seen by downstream consumers. Some downstream consumers may well parse the file and look for a column named "GMTOFF". As it happens, Joda-Time and ThreeTen-Backport do not parse the column name. But, given the quantity of downstream consumers of those files, I'd imagine at least one does. This change should be reverted, as it is unnecessary and may well cause downstream pain. Stephen