A fork for the time-zone database?

Posted Oct 11, 2021 11:44 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: A fork for the time-zone database? by marcH
Parent article: A fork for the time-zone database?

> Pure slideware / bullet points with zero reference, examples, number or any sort of evidence. Zero recommendation or anything anywhere close to a solution.

And why should it set out to provide a solution? It's setting out to provide a map of the bear-traps. It's not setting out to provide a map of your best route around them!

It's down to YOU to find the correct solution for YOUR circumstances. How often do I curse blue bloody murder - AND USUALLY WALK AWY - at websites that - because their designers DIDN'T THINK - won't let me enter correct data. How many websites demand a mobile phone number, when a lot of their customers won't have one? All because they insist on texting you delivery information, for example.

Unfortuntely your typical programmer analyst is doing a job and doesn't bother to think. The analyst is unaware of the real problem-space, and the programmer does what he's told. And the poor sod at the sharp end curses because the problem the computer solves isn't the one he's got!!!

Cheers,
Wol