On 29 August 2013 14:53, Petr Machata <pmachata@redhat.com> wrote:
Stephen Colebourne <scolebourne@joda.org> writes:
The point I'm making is that end-users of this data assume it to be stable and reliable. Moreover, the vast majority of those users do not care whether the data pre-1970 is accurate or not. Stable yes, accurate no.
I don't think you can assume stability either. We occasionally revisit old data to correct them. There's some guesswork involved in the way some zones are defined even in relatively recent past, let alone pre-1970, and when better information becomes available, those entries are changed.
That is known and acceptable. It still falls under the "stable" category. What isn't stable is deleting data or changing IDs without really good reason. Stephen