[tz] minor problem in www.iana.org

Ian Abbott abbotti at mev.co.uk
Fri Jul 5 15:28:33 UTC 2013


On 2013-07-05 15:56, Martin Burnicki wrote:
> Denis Excoffier wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> The file
>> http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2013c.tar.gz
>> indicated in http://www.iana.org/time-zones
>> as being of size 132.4kb is in fact in un-gzipped format
>> and its size is 522240 bytes (i mean: this is the file i get when
>> i wget the path).
>>
>> For the content of it, no problem. Same for tzdata.
>>
>> I suppose that this has been correct at the end of April, since my personal
>> copy has the right format (and small size).
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Denis Excoffier.
>
> Indeed, the Linux "file" command says this is just a "POSIX tar archive
> (GNU)" whereas it should say "gzip compressed data".

Indeed, `gzip -l tzcode2013c.tar.gz` says "not in gzip format".

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