On 11 October 2011 18:49, Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Zefram wrote:
The other part of the rationale is about users with their own code, of which there are some, but the occasional necessary feature added to zic poses difficulties for this mode of use.
Is that "users with their own code to parse time zone source files" or "users with their own code to read compiled binary time zone files"? I think there have been only a couple of changes to the binary file format, and I suspect most of the "own code" is reading the compiled files.
The Java parsers (Joda-Time, JSR-310 and probably the JDK itself) all read the source files, not the binaries. Thats because the source files contain a lot more information. Stephen