On 6 February 2018 at 04:57, Steve Summit <scs@eskimo.com> wrote:
In the "Fractional seconds in zic input" thread, Howard Hinnant wrote:
Ah, I see our disconnect here. I have no concern about the zic compiler. The zic compiler is not in my workflow. The *input* to the zic compiler is the *only* thing that concerns me. I (and several others) have our own "zic compilers" which take this input, process it, and deliver it to our customers.
This strikes me as a very significant statement. If this is already a well-settled issue, pardon me for reraising it, but: is it agreed that the zic *input* files are as much of a product of this project as are the compiled output files, and the reference code that reads and interprets them?
The downstream consumers I have experience of use the zic source files (europe, america, asia, etc). For those projects, the source files are the primary form of the tz database. Stephen