FC4 and tzdata

[Hal Duston]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 06:52:12PM -0600, Monty J. Harder wrote:
> On 3/8/07, Hal Duston <hald at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > > > CST6CDT has a few historical gaps. 1920-1941,1943,1944,1946-1967 are missing.
> > > > America/Chicago is only missing 1943 and 1944.
> 
> I grabbed that file and looked at it.  The 'northamerica' file defines
> CST6CDT in terms of the 'US' rule, and defines America/Chicago in
> terms of the 'Chicago' rule and the 'US' rule.  I see the same thing
> with NYC rules to flesh out the America/New_York timezone. That's just
> stupid.  There's no good reason for there to be separate rules for
> each timezone governed by the same law.

Note the bit at the top of the Chicago section.

"US central time, represented by Chicago".

I read that to mean that these rules are not specific to Chicago, but
rather all of CST.

Likewise "US eastern time, represented by New York"

So, I read the US rules as setting the national standard, and then
the more regional rules to set the individual timezones before they
to were conformed universally to a national standard.

> There should be a basic US ruleset that covers the whole country, then
> timezones like New_York, Chicago, Denver, Los_Angeles, Anchorage,
> Honolulu; with the various Alaska zones, Indianapolis, Indiana/*, and
> other subdivisions of purely historical significance.