[Datetime-SIG] IANA TZ database statistics

Alexander Belopolsky alexander.belopolsky at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 04:50:19 CEST 2015


On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 10:28 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So it seems a sufficient condition is that there's at most one UTC
> offset change in the last 24 hours.


Yes.  That's the condition I've been talking for months about.

If you have a chance, please take a look at

https://github.com/abalkin/cpython/commit/d146830e70a1fda22380c5ba0d9592c16acd23de

It fails on Europe/Tallinn which seems to have transitions separated by 22
hours with the *same* utcoffset.

I don't understand why zic would ever produce something like this.
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