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How about a way to encode future timezone changes? If a country votes for a timezone change it doesn't become law tomorrow. Usually they schedule it for a dat
by ape4 11y ago
How about a way to encode future timezone changes? If a country votes for a timezone change it doesn't become law tomorrow. Usually they schedule it for a date in a few months. If a week after the vote tzdata knew this then there would be no rush.
- smackfu 11y agoHere's an example from Argentina in 2007: http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/archive/2007/12/29/argentina-122907.aspx http://blogs.technet.com/b/dst2007/archive/2007/12/29/argent... Less than a week's notice of the change, and it was between Christmas and New Year. Ouch.
- ape4 11y agoThey deserved all the wrong times they probably got.
- toast0 11y agoTzdata can encode future changes, but that's only helpful when politicians change the rules on advance and notice is given to the team that manages the data. Many jurisdictions don't appear to consider the impacts of changes and make changes with little notice.