On 08/29/2013 12:33 PM, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
You need to explain how the pre-1970 data that we do have will be retained and accessible.
Yes, that's the goal. I expect the code is what's needed next, and it should help explain things. I plan to write it soon.
the users I represent don't care about the accuracy, but they will care if it is made willfully inaccurate.
I'm afraid I don't follow. As we've seen, similar changes have been made to the tz database regularly, and evidently those users didn't notice or care. What's different about these changes?
A comprehensive solution might be two sets of files, one pre and one post 1970 with enough notice for everyone to be able to adapt.
Yes, though I'm hoping we can be a bit more flexible, with settable cutoff dates, something along the lines that Zefram suggested.
I want to ensure that we don't see a release from the current set of commits.
The current experimental version will definitely not be released as-is, so please don't worry about that.