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   fiona (vidister@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:47:59 JST fiona

   yesterday I ended up reading the time zone database mailing list archives. I'm so thankful that there are people who do that kinda work, so we don't have to. It's a very special kind of rabbit hole.

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     fiona (vidister@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:48:04 JST fiona

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     For example there is this gem, where someone is pointing out that there is a mistake in how a brief time zone change in East Berlin in 1945 is handled wrong:

     > The mistake in tz2007k is that the special 1945 rules for East Berlin and the German Sowjet Zone [...] are applied to Germany in general. The modifications return Europe/Berlin to the standard rules [...] and introduce a new zone Europe/BerlinEast [...].

     https://web.archive.org/web/20080203081524/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2059

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     fiona (vidister@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:48:31 JST fiona

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     Someone replies that the tz db only tracks diversions after 1970 and goes on..

     > However, we should have the correct entry for Berlin, which raises the question: where is the commonly accepted center of Berlin? If the center is in the former Soviet zone, tz's Europe/Berlin should use what is in the proposed Europe/BerlinEast zone. If Berlin's center is in the former west-Berlin zone, Europe/Berlin should change to match what is in the proposed Europe/Berlin zone.

     🥴 🤯

     https://web.archive.org/web/20080203081524/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/2063

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     GreenSkyOverMe (Monika) (greenskyoverme@ohai.social)'s status on Friday, 26-Apr-2024 01:48:44 JST GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)

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     @vidister 🙀