Paul Eggert wrote:
As for the changes that discarded some pre-1970 data, the underlying problem is the unnecessary proliferation of entries due to political constraints.
While the politics is irritating, having a single repository for ALL available data should be a goal? We are still discussing two databases here, one with pre 1970 data and one without. As more people are involved nowadays, filling in gaps in the history may actually be possible even if time consuming, but if someone does find a new piece of information how can that now be recorded? Is there going to be a bar on adding data simply because it's pre-1970? Do we need a second list where historic 'patches' can be logged and discussed, leaving this list for the much more continuous turnover of ongoing changes in new data? I probably need to point out that as far as I am concerned, the UK data is correct back to the creation of daylight saving back in 1916 so I've always ignored the 1970 'limit' anyway and I've not found any problems with other countries which is why I was rather surprised at the suggestion there were. My own next area of interest is 'railway time', and adding an LMT base creates an interesting hook to compare that information. But a single entry for the whole of the UK is of little use, and you certainly will not want to add 'UK town offsets' :) -- 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