[PATCH] Re: Time zone data

[Florian Weimer]

On 12/16/2014 04:32 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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

Ah, thanks.  What about this patch?

-- 
Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security
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