2014.11.09 Programmer's Notes

I've been thinking about what I might have forgotten to do since I released
Service Pack 6, and so far only one thing has come to mind: fixing the TZ
date/time/timestamp support.  What I want to do is have the SAX parsers
convert TZ data to UTC internal values, and then when persisting that to the
database, convert it to the database time zone.  So you'll lose the timezone
specification in the process, but the values will be accurate.  Seeing as
the only database that lets you *specify* a timezone is Oracle, there is no
way I can think of other than "normalizing" the data that would work portably
and consistently across the databases.

I'm going to give it a few more days before I do any work, though.  I want
to see if there is anything else I can remember that has to be done before
I release a 1.11-FINAL.  (Yes, I would do further releases with bug fixes if
anyone were to report bugs that need correction, but FINAL would be the final
feature set; I wouldn't add any more functionality later.  Sooner or later
one has to fish instead of cutting bait.)