On Thu, Apr 17, 2014, at 9:39, Marc Lehmann wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2014 at 08:29:52AM -0400, random832@fastmail.us wrote:
And yet we don't care to store what timezone the file was created in,
What _we_ care is pretty irrelevant, and some systems do store the timezone, after all, if you have a posix timestamp and an archived timezone id, you already have such a system.
My point is, if maintaining the accuracy of the local time of historical timestamps were a common need, someone would have designed a system that actually does this, rather than merely pretending to do it only when a file is never moved (geographically) from its original location. And the cost of serving this imagined need - up front rather than only for people to go looking for it - is unbounded bloat in the timezone selection list.