On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 8:00 PM, Robert Elz <kre@munnari.oz.au> wrote:
Date: Fri, 4 May 2012 18:43:02 +0200 From: Tobias Conradi <tobias.conradi@gmail.com> Message-ID: <CAAGevbXDvN47usaq3DXj-Y6+M8PCQx3vmVTrc4RcpJLBhuOubg@mail.gmail.com>
| > So, what is the effect | > if we put it into the wrong timezone? | The database would contain a bug according to tzcode2011i/Theory:
No, not necessarily Putting something into the wrong timezone is by definition having a bug in the TIMEZONE database.
- it doesn't really matter if we guess incorrectly what time conversion happens at some particular place, only if there is no zone that represents the correct conversions for some place or other. ???
Note the theory file (which we could adjust if we ever needed to incidentally) just says that the world is partitioned into regions, not that this project is attempting to specify the boundaries of those regions. There are not only attempts of doing so but successful definitions of boundaries.
Nor does it say that the regions must be connected, ????
or anything much about them, other than that they exist.
For the islands in question, provided that we have some zone defined that correctly represents the time conversions used there, then we have no bug worth worrying much about. If that would be true, the project wouldn't exist in that form. Because anyone could write down all offsets with full seconds from 0 second to e.g. 30 * 60 * 60, assign names to them and would be finished. Because there would be always some zone that has the definition.
If the comments in the zone file are wrong, we should certainly fix them sometime, Now you change your opinion?
but there's no great urgency to do that - they have no real importance and are generally only ever even seen by the people on this list Any prove that all the view at http://stats.grok.se/en/201204/List_of_tz_database_time_zones are from list members?
(no-one else is really very likely to read through all of that stuff - zic certainly doesn't care.) I read the comments before I was a list member.
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