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Re: Last update to tzcode was 2015g?
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 23:32:35 -0500
- Subject: Re: Last update to tzcode was 2015g?
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On 03/10/2016 08:13 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 03/10/2016 01:32 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
>> For tzdata: it's not routinely merged from upstream at all since it's only
>> present as test inputs, and the wiki should emphasise that.
>
> The data files (currently listed "Unknown") came from the 2009i release.
>
> Also, the file 'yearistype' in glibc is called 'yearistype.sh' in the 2009i release.
Noted.
>> For tzcode: as timezone/README says, check ChangeLog for the version
>> merged from. There is a complication: checktab.awk originally came from
>> tzcode, but now is part of tzdata instead (since 2014g). As far as I can
>> see it's not used in glibc, so could actually be deleted.
>
> I don't offhand know which tz version checktab.awk came from, but it
> wasn't 2015g. Deleting it would save us the effort of tracking down
> the tz version.
I deleted it.
> Might help to sort the wiki tables by file name.
If I could do it easily I would :}
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Cheers,
Carlos.