Aug. 31, 2013
9:42 a.m.
On 31 August 2013 01:36, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Guy Harris wrote:
If we're obliged to leave them in the tzdb for backwards compatibility purposes, we should: accompany them with a disclaimer that they're not actually meaningful
That sounds reasonable. Here's a draft of a disclaimer, along with a pointer to a discussion of how little we know even about solar time if we go back far enough, and if it weren't for those amazing Babylonian astronomers we'd know even less. I've pushed this into the experimental repository.
+1. The change on LMT looks fine to me. Given its new status, I'm happy for LMT to not correspond to the city in the zone ID where a Link occurs. Stephen