On Tue, May 21, 2013, at 12:18, Paul_Koning@Dell.com wrote:
On May 21, 2013, at 12:34 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
(3) Merge all Zones that are currently split only because of national boundaries. For example, merge Africa/Bangui, Africa/Brazzaville, etc., into Africa/Lagos, since these zones have all had the same clocks since 1970. We would of course retain backward-compatibility links for the merged zones, so they'd continue to work.
I should think to emphasize the magnitude of this change you should have used Europe/Copenhagen, Europe/Oslo, and Europe/Stockholm as your examples. Not sure which one you would propose using as the new timezone, though. Is there a way to programmatically generate a list of all timezones that have been the same since 1970?
I'd rather not do #3. The fact that they haven't had the same clocks for the entire time covered by the tzdata project isn't something that should be relegated to second class status.
Huh? They _have_. Before 1970 is officially not "covered by the tzdata project".