[Datetime-SIG] Are there any "correct" implementations of tzinfo?
Laura Creighton
lac at openend.se
Sun Sep 13 12:00:07 EDT 2015
In a message of Sun, 13 Sep 2015 10:27:30 -0500, Tim Peters writes:
>Hi, Laura! By "zoneinfo" here, we mean the IANA (aka "Olson") time
>zone database, which is ubiquitous on (at least) Linux:
>
> https://www.iana.org/time-zones
>
>So "will a wrapping of zoneinfo handle XYZ?" isn't so much a question
>about the wrapping as about what's in the IANA database.
Then we had better be able to override it when it is wrong.
>Best guess is that Creighton's rules are covered by that database's
>America/Winnipeg entries.
># Saskatchewan
># Other western towns (e.g. Lloydminster) are like Edmonton.
># Matthews and Vincent (1998) write that Denare Beach and Creighton
># are like Winnipeg, in violation of Saskatchewan law.
I think that this will work.
Creighton is just across the border from Flin Flan, Manitoba. Indeed I think
the problem of 'drunken people from Manitoba trying to get one hours more
drinking done and being a menace on the highway' may have fueled the
'we are going to have DST in violation of the law' movement in Creighton.
But I am not sure how it is that a poor soul who just wants to print a
railway schedule 'in local time' is supposed to know that Creighton is
using Winnipeg time.
Laura
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