June 6, 2019
9:49 a.m.
On Jun 06 2019, Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org> wrote:
In effect, tzdb used to provide (0, 1) for Ireland, now it provides (1, 0). This was an incompatible API change for the downstream projects of Java and CLDR.
And it was completely uncalled-for. Just because the Ireland law calls it standard time doesn't mean it can't be summer time as well. The EU summer-time directive defines summer time as "the period of the year during which clocks are put forward by 60 minutes compared with the rest of the year". Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."