On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 3:02 PM, Stephen Colebourne <scolebou...@joda.org> wrote:
> > In the short term, I don't think CLDR should change its data, nor do I > think OpenJDK should change. ie. for Ireland, standard=winter and > daylight=summer should continue to be true in both projects. > I agree > If TZDB insists on continuing with the change, the TZDB compiler in > OpenJDK will have to be changed. I've managed to make a change (hack) > to the compiler in Joda-Time, so a solution should be possible to some > degree in OpenJDK too. > https://github.com/JodaOrg/joda-time/commit/c5c681c91c74a508e67911e0af4980 > 846d676ba2 I was thinking about how to "reverse the polarity". The advantage of a source transformation is that the code can be shared among all downstream tzdata consumers. The advantage of building it into the "compiler" is defense against the maintainer/user mistake of simply overwriting the tzdata files.
