On 5/26/16 3:54 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: > > > I see the attraction to including TZ data in the OSM, but the > timezone definitions are in flux more than most political boundaries. '.... > Whether core OSM is the right place to store and serve this is one > question; > what team/project commits to maintaining it another; > and how it can be structured to reuse OSM existing political entity > border relations without causing problems. this is an easy one: don't do it. Bill is right, tz data is very fluid. count how many times a year the tzdata file updates on a Linux box. it will never be quite right, it will always be a source of trouble.
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