That's not really the case. If some country decided to actually implement a year-round +6 DST, then that would also be included in tz database 2018-10-5 07:48, Tim Parenti <tim@timtimeonline.com> wrote:
For tz's purposes, though (the sentence begins "The tz database models time using…"), those are synonymous. Of course, this may not be the case if you're using a workaround like the one suggested for Ethiopia, but the goal is to further clarify that that's out of our scope.
-- Tim Parenti
On Thu, 4 Oct 2018 at 19:14, Steve Allen <sla@ucolick.org> wrote:
On Thu 2018-10-04T18:13:56-0400 Tim Parenti hath writ:
To bring this back, then, to a recognition of the potential differences in how the hours are counted, we should probably expand the text in theory slightly to specify that tz counts hours under the assumption that 00 represents midnight.
I think that 00 represents the hour at which the calendar day and date change. That may not happen in the middle of the night.
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