On 5 September 2013 15:47, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
* Theory: Say that excluding 'backward' should not affect other data. Suggested by Stephen Colebourne in <http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-September/019939.html>. diff --git a/Theory b/Theory index 39ef7ac..13b5565 100644 --- a/Theory +++ b/Theory @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@ this relationship is not exact and is not true for 'time.tab'. Older versions of this package used a different naming scheme, and these older names are still supported. See the file 'backward' for most of these older names -(e.g. 'US/Eastern' instead of 'America/New_York'). +(e.g. 'US/Eastern' instead of 'America/New_York'); +excluding 'backward' should not affect the other data. The other old-fashioned names still supported are 'WET', 'CET', 'MET', and 'EET' (see the file 'europe').
For the sake of moving forward I'll accept this as a compromise, although I don't think it goes far enough. Stephen