Paul Eggert wrote:
most end consumers of the data cannot tell the
difference between a Link and a Zone. As such, from their perspective it is very odd to find that some IDs are allowed pre-1970 data and others are not If we're talking about the perspective of most end consumers, most of them don't know or care about pre-1970 data. So they won't find anything odd at all.
The problem with that statement is that 'some' end consumers do. Any application which displays historic data via a timeline ( how far does facebook go back? ) and is switched to use the new way of handling local time will have a problem when scrolling back in time if the calendar displays 'simple GMT times' in one and 'proper local time' in another ... -- 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