Time zone data

[Joseph Myers]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2014, Florian Weimer wrote:

> We seem to have quite a few of time zone descriptions in timezone/, but they
> have not been updated since 2009 or so.  I suppose these days, everyone uses
> tzdata for system time zone data.
> 
> Why do we keep these files?  Are they used in test cases?

Yes, this data serves as test inputs only.  It's not been installed by 
glibc since:

commit 482ff4dae91cf9a288284072d1a299868db7a634
Author: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed Mar 7 04:48:47 2012 -0500

    Don't install timezone rule files

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com