Paul Eggert wrote:
This removes the need to create any new
timezones for what is essentially outside the scope of the 'default' TZ distribution? I don't think anybody's proposing creating a new zone for every location on the planet, no. The problem is that we'd need thousands of zones merely to handle standard time.
That is the bit I'm not currently getting? I can't see that there are that many more 'standard time' timezones. Yes there may be a lot of cross reference links that indicate when a location joined some sort of standard time, and I'm happy that is a separate list, but why would there be 'thousands' of new timezones? Perhaps it's just interpretation, but if there is evidence for thousands more why are we saying it's all be lost? -- 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