May 30, 2019
9:14 a.m.
On Wed, 29 May 2019 at 17:05, Paul Ganssle <paul@ganssle.io> wrote:
Why exactly does Java not want to implement a parser that supports the current version of the tz database? It seems like they should either make the case for why negative DST is not a good feature to support, or they should adjust to the fact that it is a feature that will be present in the time zone database.
It is a compatibility requirement of the main Java libraries (including icu4j IIUC) that DST is always positive. That isn't going to change. (Essentially it is a different, and not unreasonable, definition of what DST means). Stephen