Oct. 25, 2017
11:15 p.m.
On 24 October 2017 at 20:52, <Paul.Koning@dell.com> wrote:
A metadata file would be great. XML might be a good format. The minimal content would be, I think, version string (e.g. "2017c") and release date. I can imagine other information that might be attractive, for example the names of countries affected (separate for "future" and "past" timestamps), and perhaps the dates affected (for future, that would be the effective date of the new or changed rule).
If only we had some tzdist <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc7808> implementations… metadata geared toward answering questions like "what's being affected and when?" was definitely one of the goals there. -- Tim Parenti