On 26 January 2018 at 07:15, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
Why do we need all this?
Because applications have APIs that they want to continue to support in a backwards compatible way. Even if everything were deprecated today, those APIs would need to be supported for at least 10 years and probably more. And anyway, I disagree that these APIs should be deprecated. Just because zic/posiz doesn't expose data doesn't mean its not useful.
all of us can go back to doing work that actually provides a useful service rather than wasting lots of time looking for solutions to problems that no-one really cares about.
TZDB has known about the Ireland issue since 2005. No change was needed at all. No benefit has accrued, only cost. The change was and is inadvisable. Numerous people have criticised the change. And over 150 emails have been sent. All for something where the zic binary output doesn't even care which way the source is defined!!!! Stephen