On Jul 25, 2015, at 9:34 AM, Jon Skeet <skeet@pobox.com> wrote:
I've now changed the format on github to the one Howard proposed, updating the data on http://nodatime.org/tzvalidate (still uploading) and the various tools. Now that we (by default) include all the data available before the cutoff point (2035 by default) this hopefully removes at least some of the concerns Paul raised earlier, too.
<nitpick> The validation file is slightly more human-readable if instead of: Africa/Accra Initially: -00:00:52 standard LMT 1918-01-01T00:00:52Z +00:00:00 standard GMT 1920-09-01T00:00:00Z +00:20:00 daylight GHST 1920-12-30T23:40:00Z +00:00:00 standard GMT … You have: Africa/Accra Initially: -00:00:52 standard LMT 1918-01-01T00:00:52Z +00:00:00 standard GMT 1920-09-01T00:00:00Z +00:20:00 daylight GHST 1920-12-30T23:40:00Z +00:00:00 standard GMT … I.e. put spaces after “Initially:” to line up the offset information. Howard