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Re: Last update to tzcode was 2015g?
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2016 17:13:25 -0800
- Subject: Re: Last update to tzcode was 2015g?
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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.
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.
Might help to sort the wiki tables by file name.