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File talk:DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png

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::::* This is asking for more than can be reasonably expected from the file providers. Nobody is trying to come up with an image that is "valid as of 22 December 2009" or anything like it. People are just trying to update this image as new information comes in. The image is not necessarily valid for any date; sometimes the updates are applied in an order that is not consistent with the actual changes to the rules. And sometimes nobody really knows what the rules are until after the dates have passed. If we were really trying to come up with a different image for each set of rules, then whenever an old typo was discovered we'd have to update dozens of images; this simply isn't practical and won't get done.

::::* This is asking for more than can be reasonably expected from the file providers. Nobody is trying to come up with an image that is "valid as of 22 December 2009" or anything like it. People are just trying to update this image as new information comes in. The image is not necessarily valid for any date; sometimes the updates are applied in an order that is not consistent with the actual changes to the rules. And sometimes nobody really knows what the rules are until after the dates have passed. If we were really trying to come up with a different image for each set of rules, then whenever an old typo was discovered we'd have to update dozens of images; this simply isn't practical and won't get done.
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::::* For more on the practical chaos that underlies this file, please see [[en:Daylight saving time]]. If there is a need for old versions of the file, I suggest that they be linked to directly via the version number, ''e.g.'', [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/2/29/20091101074056!DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png like this]; or if that's not possible for some reason, they can be created as needed from this file, with names like "[[File:DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions!20091101074056.png]]" for that particular version number (which is not necessarily the rules that were actually in effect at 2009-11-01 at 07:40:56 UTC).
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::::* For more on the practical chaos that underlies this file, please see [[en:Daylight saving time]]. If there is a need for old versions of the file, I suggest that they be linked to directly via the version number, ''e.g.'', [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/archive/2/29/20091101074056!DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions.png like this]; or if that's not possible for some reason, they can be created as needed from this file, with names like "[[:File:DaylightSaving-World-Subdivisions!20091101074056.png]]" for that particular version number (which is not necessarily the rules that were actually in effect at 2009-11-01 at 07:40:56 UTC).

::::[[User:Eubulides|Eubulides]] ([[User talk:Eubulides|talk]]) 03:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

::::[[User:Eubulides|Eubulides]] ([[User talk:Eubulides|talk]]) 03:39, 22 December 2009 (UTC)

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