[tz] Dropping iso3166.tab

Garrett Wollman wollman at csail.mit.edu
Mon May 20 22:31:02 UTC 2013


<<On Mon, 20 May 2013 15:27:50 -0700, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> said:

> I was thinking of changing the comment to be just "--",
> for every entry in zone.tab.   How would this change
> affect FreeBSD's use of zone.tab?

It would completely destroy it.  The tzsetup(8) utility absolutely
depends on having the country codes; it would have to be rewritten to
use some alternative source of country->zone mappings.

-GAWollman


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