Oct. 22, 2018
5:56 p.m.
* Paul Eggert:
Stephen Colebourne wrote:
It would be much better for the upstream source to represent the data in a more standard and backwards compatible way.
The original Japanese regulation does seem to say that the transition occurs Saturday at 25:00 (as this is how such times are often expressed in Japan), and it's better to represent data as close to the original as the format allows. This is not a recent change to the format, which was relaxed to allow 25:00 (and other out-of-range times) in 2007, as first proposed here:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2007-May/014341.html
with no disagreement at the time.
What's the exact algorithm for normalizing the date? Is there only one possible way of doing this? Thanks, Florian