[tz] A history maintaining repository for tzdata

Guy Harris guy at alum.mit.edu
Tue Oct 11 17:49:42 UTC 2011


On Oct 11, 2011, at 7:40 AM, Zefram wrote:

> The other part of the
> rationale is about users with their own code, of which there are some,
> but the occasional necessary feature added to zic poses difficulties
> for this mode of use.

Is that "users with their own code to parse time zone source files" or "users with their own code to read compiled binary time zone files"?  I think there have been only a couple of changes to the binary file format, and I suspect most of the "own code" is reading the compiled files.



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