On 15 July 2015 at 06:09, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Stephen Colebourne wrote:
To say that software should not care and that it is unsupported is .... er .... rather worrying. Although it is an issue, the DST-vs-STD offsets are implementation details that are neither exposed by the reference API nor exported to zic's output files. Any values they internally have were not intended to be visible when the tzdata entries were written.
I think what Jon is asking, and I'm confirming, is that this data *should* be considered part of the public data exposed by the tzdb project. Noda, Joda and JSR-310 all use it, no doubt other do to. It is very reasonable and useful info. The key point being that we don't just care about what the offset is, but also how that offset is calculated. Stephen