On 1 August 2014 01:53, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Finally, it isn't much of a maintenance burden to keep the bogus data in the current format; the main problem with the bogus data is that it's bogus, not that it needs formatting.
This is what confuses me. The minimum effort is to not touch the data at all, which pleases those of us wanting stability. Could an approach where those lines considered bogus are tagged with an end of line comment? For example: Zone Africa/Nouakchott -1:03:48 - LMT 1912 0:00 - GMT 1934 Feb 26 # BOGUS -1:00 - WAT 1960 Nov 28 # BOGUS 0:00 - GMT Such an approach applied generally would preserve the data until it is definitively replaced with something better and allow it to clearly be tagged as of low quality. Applications could choose to parse a specific comment format and eliminate the data, but they would be under no obligation to do so. Stephen