Re: [tz] data not represented in tzfiles

Paul Eggert wrote:

Since we're already relying on other extensions to POSIX as part of the recent changes, it should be OK to rely on this one as well,

If you're going to extend POSIX TZ as much as necessary, it can be extended much more cleanly than this. Allowing a wider range of time-of-day in the TZ format is qualitatively less troublesome than defining entirely new semantics. -zefram