Jan. 25, 2018
9:53 p.m.
I'm afraid that I'm not understanding the proposal; could you write up Irish time as a specific example to help explain it? Remember, the problem is not whether Java can be changed to support negative DST offsets (or, for that matter, whether it can be changed to support the new feature you're proposing). The problem is how to transition from the old to the proposed system without breaking anything significant, even when some components are old and some are new.