When I read the patch, I found it confusing and it seemed like many of the changes would become harder to understand. I went back and reread Paul's front matter explaining the concern was timestamps prior to the existance of UTC. Then I threw away my composed message expressing concern. So I think Philip's point is probably correct. This change seems like it creates more confusion, both in documentation and in strings printed by the code. --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson Philip Paeps <philip@trouble.is> wrote on Wed, 8 Nov 2017 at 01:08:34 +0800 in <20171107170834.GF13707@rincewind.trouble.is>:
I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to simply note "where we write UTC, we actually mean UT when referring to timestamps before UTC was introduced".
While UTC is comparatively poorly understood, UT is simply unknown to anyone who hasn't been reading tzdata diffs or hanging out with time nerds for a while.