Ángel González wrote:
Deleting any data is wrong. If users have a reason for only viewing part of the data then fair enough, but we have the opportunity here to get this right before it becomes embedded in every browser. That does not want a broken set of timezones with this arbitrary cutoff - THAT is the very thing some of us want to get away from. I don't know why a browser would want to embed its own copy of tz, but this seems the wrong example. Actually, I think browsers should not expose the full tz rules, as that would allow to pinpoint the user quite accurately by probing old timezones that aren't actually needed by web apps.
If one is looking at ONLY displaying current dates, then that is not a problem, but why have one display process for current dates and a different one for historic dates? My point is that if you ask for historic dates is should be handled the same as a current one. Time didn't start in 1970 ... even if some computers still think it did. -- 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