Le 20/10/2023 à 22:40, Doug Ewell a écrit :
Alexandre Petrescu wrote:
Should be used when Internet is not available. I would guess that very few systems depend on Internet connectivity to access the current tz database. Storing it locally seems much more sensible.
Sure. It should come from the Internet and stored locally. One would like to store it locally once one sees an email declaration from a gov't on this list, and not necessarily fast continuous updates. But in that, one assumes Internet access is readily available when one needs it. This might not be the case. One might need to know now the date of some place, without having Internet access. Additionally, one might not have a usable computer to store that data to. So all one could do is to rely on printed tables of most recent timezone data that was available when Internet was last available. Alex
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