From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 67044 invoked by alias); 7 Aug 2015 00:45:28 -0000 Mailing-List: contact libc-locales-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: libc-locales-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 67017 invoked by uid 89); 7 Aug 2015 00:45:27 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-Spam-User: qpsmtpd, 2 recipients X-HELO: smtp.gentoo.org Date: Fri, 07 Aug 2015 00:45:00 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger To: keld@keldix.com Cc: Marko Myllynen , GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Removing locale timezone information Message-ID: <20150807004524.GE30077@vapier> Mail-Followup-To: keld@keldix.com, Marko Myllynen , GNU C Library , libc-locales@sourceware.org References: <556F23C9.3030500@redhat.com> <20150603203430.GC15814@www5.open-std.org> <55715DB2.2010500@redhat.com> <20150806175226.GD28963@www5.open-std.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha256; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20150806175226.GD28963@www5.open-std.org> X-SW-Source: 2015-q3/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-length: 512 On 06 Aug 2015 19:52, keld@keldix.com wrote: > I thing tz data changes are not very frequent, but I may be wrong. > It has not changed for most of the European countries for many years. across the world, there are usually multiple changes every year. sometimes with very short notice (weeks or even days). simply read the history of the tzdata package if you want data. distros updating the timezone database and porting it back to older releases is trivial. patching & pushing glibc updates are not. -mike --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-length: 819 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJVw/+jAAoJEEFjO5/oN/WBKHsP/2G+Gv6WI8qyJQzxcuRWcVpE Tm4zKS9O/x6GpYg4gOoquOh2qBeF1RMq1sKrP+Mh+8GPhUY/aFPrBpNxzR8xXztg uWyBuI4i76Xfrq3D2s+Xc/MNi5mkweNHA1Q1NoFFRZ+sP0z8SCJ4T0SRydQS31sH 7FJWwEok7827HakpzgR1wu6TQLuY0WlSrsNuv9MqktWv3B46lFDx55JpQvsgWCI/ aoQLRbllaMKElw4bvi6avG8dYE/vD7U1gZXq8wkpmtgrytUTpWzA/uAR9YeTwKlt 9kOSoWA2KJ75LPNvzZtQ8Bnh8DTbd2XixJE/9Va3HM3S3K+5wmqpWrH5pVSLlDyD BtZS8bGFfI3WwBqeROzGxaWgIMsWrxL/JpZ6Xdbp2evV4ydxYIorQd2cpoVkhpe8 CeD4Cq2PsVV2ndjRo7Jgt5bvbiRL+m19wccS+0zJG+YTOiRhYW2UlA69vJXumVW7 A1ewrOpeEpxwg/yh0QyDTbJm0f7H1n20ItlpDYQSUx9iMKOp33cG3TP1CxIy9dl6 lZCfMkzk6/GB0XyGNlZT+uy4YafFeFlCGPmvrbCz+SUYNNvPwSmi3nwc9pcPgFKq KbmZ0KdwMrSUa8rEVagEXbUx5/yjEouOxj8jBySWHloyRhIBfjcCCpy2zovGwbDG yT0jMRQHMwQk4GpsMpUN =Bokq -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+pHx0qQiF2pBVqBT--