Steve Allen wrote:
>                            The way that zoneinfo is structured gives
>the impression that POSIX systems (and anything which handles local
>civil time in a roughly equivalent way) could handle such a name change,

Zoneinfo doesn't model the differences between flavours of UT, or
indeed any sub-second effects.  So yes, it can handle the name change,
presuming that we treat TI as a flavour of UT for this purpose.
(While it's certainly not a flavour of UT for many other purposes,
not least the plain definition of UT.)

-zefram
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