Oct. 3, 2014
12:41 p.m.
On Oct 3, 2014, at 12:02 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
On 03/10/14 19:08, Paul Eggert wrote:
This underscores the unreliability of our old source Shanks. We already knew Shanks was wrong for large swaths of the world in the 20th century. Even so, it's surprisingly bad for a U.S. source like Shanks to get South Vietnam wrong in 1973. Wasn't Shanks reading the newspapers?
What it does demonstrate is that now we are getting more people involved, the better documented provenance is starting to be uncovered?
...and that, as Paul has repeatedly said, much of the current historical data in the tz database is bogus.