Re: timezones BCE

[chap]

On 2022-04-13 14:13, Dave Cramer wrote:

Oh please don't do something bespoke. I'm trying to make this work with the

JDBC driver.
So it has to be at least compatible with other libraries.

Looks like Java agrees with the offset, prior to Toronto's 1895 adoption
of the hour-wide zone:

jshell> java.time.ZoneId.of("America/Toronto").
   ...> getRules().
   ...> nextTransition(java.time.Instant.parse("0101-01-01T00:00:00Z"))
$1 ==> Transition[Gap at 1895-01-01T00:00-05:17:32 to -05:00]

Regards,
-Chap