Someone I know linked me to this mailing list archive thread:
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-September/thread.html#30503
Seems like they're fucking around with timezone data, but he says it's mostly for muh diversity reasons, but I'm too stupid to follow this thread.
It looks like a sane person is trying to fork the modified time DB away into a separate project and leaving the original alone but I'm having a hard time following this entire thread. Anyone know of what's going on?
I'll be the first to agree with you on that. But this is an old library that already has the data structures to handle this sort of complex dataset. To my knowledge no one is complaining that the time zone structure is more complex than it needs to be, because the domain itself is complex. And they haven't removed any of the complexity, they've just shuffled it around to some other part of the library.
Yes. The trick is to know where to fight your battles. But still the obsessives also tend to value correctness. If you're such a time zone nerd that you're maintaining an open source time zone library in your spare time, I would imagine you care about the details. Otherwise you wouldn't be doing it at all.