On 02/04/15 06:05, Dzmitry Kazimirchyk wrote:
I see this approach as violently discriminatory. Although Belarus did formally declared independence in 1990 it took time to implement it and real independence was achieved only in December 1991 with disolvation of the Soviet Union. MSK used on the territory of current Belarus back then always meant "Moscow time" and there was no real concept or name such as "Minsk time" back then, so the "conservative" approach doesn't really apply here.
Dzmitry ... That is exactly the reason that the rules for the TZ database deliberately try to avoid any political bias. I am often at odds with Paul over maintaining historic material, but any pre-1990 standards are maintained. We can't re-write history. But similarly it is not the job of the database to create it, so where there is no consensus, the historic base simply roles forward. The TZ database does not maintain a location mapping service, which is where the link between any ground location and a set of rules in TZ should be established, and it is that mapping service which would add any local descriptions and details. The TZ database simply provides a reliable set of rules that are accurate for the identifiers provided ... which are not locations. -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk