Re: draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-timeconfig-02.txt

[Harald Tveit Alvestrand <harald@alvestrand.no>]

--On fredag, april 25, 2003 08:22:02 -0700 Bill Fenner 
<fenner@research.att.com> wrote:

> Indeed.  It's a hard problem to decide what is useful.  The name in the
> Olson database is more useful if the node has the Olson database, since
> it can know when historical daylight savings time was.  (Was it Daylight
> Savings time on April 20, 1969?)  The POSIX rules allow a system without
> the database to decide whether or not it's DST right now but doesn't say
> anything about when the rule is applicable and when it might have changed.
>
> This almost argues that instead of either/or, the option should always
> carry both and let the client decide which one it finds useful.
argues for two options - one for Olsen, one for POSIX?
and a third for "someone else's rules"???????

Leslie - have we been here before? It feels so familiar.....