gunther Vermeir wrote:
just +1 for using the big bang... because "time stamps before then are physically suspect anyway." :)
Yes, I love this one! Just yesterday I was talking to an undergraduate UCLA computer science student about cosmological inflation, and now I can go back to him and tell him I squashed a Brazilian time stamp bug with the Big Bang! I'm attaching a patch which I've pushed into the experimental repository. This patch uses a more-justifiable estimate for the time of the Big Bang, namely the Planck+WP+highL+BAO best fit. I've tested this with the 2014c database and verified that it doesn't change the zdump output. I've also tested that it works around the GNOME bug for America/Sao_Paulo on Fedora 20 x86-64 (which uses Glib 2.38). Comments welcome. I'd like to generate a new tz version soon, since the GNOME bug is reasonably painful.