Aug. 27, 2013
6 p.m.
On 08/27/13 01:18, Derick Rethans wrote:
Are you leaving this longstanding policy of data stability behind now?
Systematic support for pre-1970 timestamps has always been outside the scope of the tz database, and as I recall it's been removed before without problems. The intent is that clock transitions before 1970 are recorded only to fill in the blank areas (on platforms with negative time_t) for locations that differ since 1970. So no, the policy hasn't changed here. For details, please see "Scope of the tz database" in the Theory file <http://www.ietf.org/timezones/code/Theory>.