A fork for the time-zone database?
A fork for the time-zone database?
Posted Sep 29, 2021 8:21 UTC (Wed) by Cyberax (✭ supporter ✭, #52523)Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?
> Unfortunately, the equity issue has broadened and is now visible outside our little community, and I really and sincerely doubt whether it'd be a good idea for us to do nothing about it now. We need to establish that we are fixing the problem and are not deferring action to a never-never land of arcane bureaucracy, and we need to do so in terms that will be clear to outsiders.
Why the heck "equity" is used to justify all kinds of moronic changes? There's no pressing demand to save a few kilobytes by merging timezones. If you want equity, then just go and put in more TZ entries for underserved territories.
Posted Sep 30, 2021 11:34 UTC (Thu)
by immibis (subscriber, #105511)
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A fork for the time-zone database?
It's not. It's being used to justify *this* moronic change. You cannot extrapolate from one incident.