On Wed, 18 Sep 2013, Stephen Colebourne wrote:
Based on this I infer that the conversion from Zone to Link is not temporary, but permanent. There will be no way to reinsert the data into the main tzdb (it might be reinsertable into a secondary/extended/pre-1970 file, but not the main data set as currently designed).
As such and from my perspective, the changes under discussion result in a permanently worse set of data for source code consumers like Java and PHP which rely on accurate data for each ID (and don't care about the Link vs Zone or zic compiled data size).
My strong preference is to retain this kind of data (reverting the deletions) until there is some alternate means of representing it and a long enough period for source code data consumers to adapt their parsers (ie. at least 6 months).
I fully support this. cheers, Derick -- http://derickrethans.nl | http://xdebug.org Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: http://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug