[tz] 2016c on illumos - problems with new Russia entries

Dan McDonald danmcd at omniti.com
Fri Apr 8 19:23:13 UTC 2016


> On Apr 8, 2016, at 3:17 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> On 04/08/2016 10:52 AM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>> Someone also responded to me offline with a patch from Dragonfly BSD, which I've got up for review now:
>> 
>> 	http://kebe.com/~danmcd/webrevs/zic-zdump/
> 
> A quick glance suggests that we already have those changes.

Good!  And that they didn't look WRONG to you (am I right) is encouraging.

> It looks like Dragonfly has forked from the tzcode versions of zic.c and zdump.c. I don't know why they would do that -- it's more work for them. Perhaps you could suggest that they simply adopt the tzcode versions as-is. Similarly for illumos.

For us it's about the existing L10N in place.  It does sound, however, like perhaps we should resync with tzcode down the road.  That won't be today, however.

Thank you!
Dan



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