Sept. 24, 2021
7:51 a.m.
On 9/24/21 12:32 AM, Jon Skeet wrote:
Except that the name 2021a1 is*not* compatible with https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html
I don't know of any software that will break due to the name 2021a1. If you know of one, we could issue 2021b and 2021c. I had already considered doing that but thought that it would more problematic than what I ended up proposing, for reasons that I hope are obvious. Making the equitable distribution look like an optional flaky branch is not the way to move forward. It shouldn't be considered optional because fairness ought to be one of our core principles. And it shouldn't be considered flaky because it's not flaky; we've done this sort of thing many times before without significant incident.