<i18n dev> CLDR Irish time zone name

Martin Buchholz martinrb at google.com
Thu Feb 15 01:32:46 UTC 2018


On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 10:24 PM, Mark Davis ☕️ <mark at macchiato.com> wrote:

> I'm pretty annoyed with the TZ group lately; there seems to be little
> consideration for compatibility.
>
> I think, if it comes to it, we may need to be prepared to fork the "input
> data" in CLDR. My hope is that they will instead at least maintain the
> current format AND some new-fangled format that goes off into the weeds
> as part of the TZ project.
>

This may end up with a model similar to openssh.  There's the "pure"
version of openssh, but in the real world everyone uses the "portable"
version.  Similarly, the impure version of tzdata would revert any negative
and fractional-second zone offsets in the pure version.


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