[ITA] tzcode tzdata

[ITA] tzcode tzdata

[Brian Inglis]

I would like to offer to adopt packages tzdata and tzcode:

	Time Zone Database and utilities

The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdb, or zoneinfo) contains
data that represents the history of local time for most locations around
the world, and supports conversion of UTC time to local time at those
locations to allow display of those local times. It is updated
periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to daylight
saving (summer time) rules, UTC offsets, and time zone boundaries.

Unless Corinna or Yaakov would like to retain maintenance of them; I already
asked Mark Geisert, who made recent updates to base Cygwin tzcode on
cygwin-patches, and he expressed no interest in the packages.

I have been a subscriber to the tz and tz-announce MLs for years, originally
checking for new releases daily, to download and apply to my JVMs with the
tzupdater; now, with my other packages, weekly, just for interest and to keep my
archives complete.

Source and binary packages are available for testing on Gdrive:

tzcode	https://drive.google.com/open?id=19gibjLtiy8uSTEo6Qb9wgUwGvhvFYPNk

tzdata	https://drive.google.com/open?id=16A9TgDbKaGuFv-pY9zEwveov9kzSj0eQ

I have added some more HTML and text docs and the version file, and moved zdump
from /usr/sbin/ to /usr/bin/ to better reflect what other distros do, and allow
users to more easily check whether rules have been updated.

Re: [ITA] tzcode tzdata

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Jun 20 14:07, Brian Inglis wrote:
> I would like to offer to adopt packages tzdata and tzcode:
> 
> 	Time Zone Database and utilities
> 
> The Time Zone Database (often called tz, tzdb, or zoneinfo) contains
> data that represents the history of local time for most locations around
> the world, and supports conversion of UTC time to local time at those
> locations to allow display of those local times. It is updated
> periodically to reflect changes made by political bodies to daylight
> saving (summer time) rules, UTC offsets, and time zone boundaries.
> 
> Unless Corinna or Yaakov would like to retain maintenance of them; I already
> asked Mark Geisert, who made recent updates to base Cygwin tzcode on
> cygwin-patches, and he expressed no interest in the packages.
> 
> I have been a subscriber to the tz and tz-announce MLs for years, originally
> checking for new releases daily, to download and apply to my JVMs with the
> tzupdater; now, with my other packages, weekly, just for interest and to keep my
> archives complete.
> 
> Source and binary packages are available for testing on Gdrive:
> 
> tzcode	https://drive.google.com/open?id=19gibjLtiy8uSTEo6Qb9wgUwGvhvFYPNk
> 
> tzdata	https://drive.google.com/open?id=16A9TgDbKaGuFv-pY9zEwveov9kzSj0eQ
> 
> I have added some more HTML and text docs and the version file, and moved zdump
> from /usr/sbin/ to /usr/bin/ to better reflect what other distros do, and allow
> users to more easily check whether rules have been updated.

ACKing adoption.


Thanks,
Corinna

-- 
Corinna Vinschen
Cygwin Maintainer

Re: [ITA] tzcode tzdata

[Marco Atzeri]

On 30.06.2020 20:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Jun 20 14:07, Brian Inglis wrote:
>> I would like to offer to adopt packages tzdata and tzcode:
>>
>> 	Time Zone Database and utilities
>>

>>
>> Source and binary packages are available for testing on Gdrive:
>>
>> tzcode	https://drive.google.com/open?id=19gibjLtiy8uSTEo6Qb9wgUwGvhvFYPNk
>>
>> tzdata	https://drive.google.com/open?id=16A9TgDbKaGuFv-pY9zEwveov9kzSj0eQ
>>
>> I have added some more HTML and text docs and the version file, and moved zdump
>> from /usr/sbin/ to /usr/bin/ to better reflect what other distros do, and allow
>> users to more easily check whether rules have been updated.
> 
> ACKing adoption.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Corinna
> 

updated cygwin-pkg-maint

Regards
Marco

Re: [ITA] tzcode tzdata

[Brian Inglis]

On 2020-06-30 13:01, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 30.06.2020 20:45, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> On Jun 20 14:07, Brian Inglis wrote:
>>> I would like to offer to adopt packages tzdata and tzcode:
>>>
>>>     Time Zone Database and utilities
>>>
>>> Source and binary packages are available for testing on Gdrive:
>>>
>>> tzcode    https://drive.google.com/open?id=19gibjLtiy8uSTEo6Qb9wgUwGvhvFYPNk
>>>
>>> tzdata    https://drive.google.com/open?id=16A9TgDbKaGuFv-pY9zEwveov9kzSj0eQ
>>>
>>> I have added some more HTML and text docs and the version file, and moved zdump
>>> from /usr/sbin/ to /usr/bin/ to better reflect what other distros do, and allow
>>> users to more easily check whether rules have been updated.
>>
>> ACKing adoption.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Corinna

> updated cygwin-pkg-maint
> 
> Regards
> Marco

Thanks folks, tzcode update released

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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

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