[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] * Makefile, NEWS: Say that backzone's contents are not all low-quality

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Aug 26 05:01:41 UTC 2014


and give credit to Lester Caine for some of its high-quality entries.
---
 Makefile | 4 ++--
 NEWS     | 9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2354a3f..8ccbaf4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ LIBDIR=		$(TOPDIR)/lib
 # below.  If you want both sets of data available, with leap seconds counted
 # normally, use
 #	REDO=		right_posix
-# below.  If you want just POSIX-compatible time values, but with extra
-# lower-quality data from the file 'backzone', use
+# below.  If you want just POSIX-compatible time values, but with
+# out-of-scope and often-wrong data from the file 'backzone', use
 #	REDO=		posix_packrat
 # POSIX mandates that leap seconds not be counted; for compatibility with it,
 # use "posix_only", "posix_right", or "posix_packrat".
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3c8b84b..8302547 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
     A new file 'backzone' contains data which may appeal to
     connoisseurs of old time stamps, although it is out of scope for
-    the tz database and is often poorly sourced.  The new file is not
-    recommended for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by
-    default.  (Thanks to Lester Caine for the Guernsey, Jersey, and
-    Isle of Man entries in 'backzone'.)
+    the tz database, is often poorly sourced, and contains some data
+    that is known to be incorrect.  The new file is not recommended
+    for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by default.
+    (Thanks to Lester Caine for the high-quality Jersey, Guernsey, and
+    Isle of Man entries.)
 
     Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
     from existing zones only for older time stamps.  As usual,
-- 
1.9.1



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