[tz] Database available in other formats

[Sergio Bonfiglio]

Dear Paul,

I don't know what to do with the file 0001-Mention.... etc. that you sent
me.
Must I apply to a git clone or something ?
Would you apply to the official page, so you sent it to me for a sort of
approval ?
Excuse my ignorance, please.

Sergio


Il giorno ven 1 mag 2020 alle ore 20:51 Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu> ha
scritto:

> On 5/1/20 8:49 AM, Sergio Bonfiglio wrote:
>
> > https://timezonedb.com/
>
> tz-link.html mentions TimeZoneDB under "Time zone boundaries" but it'd be
> good
> to also mention their CSV and SQL downloads. I installed the attached
> proposed
> patch to try to do that.
>
> > in Italy there are 3 zones, not only ROME but also Palermo (Sicily island
> > complete) and Cagliari (Sardinia island complete), which differ from each
> > other, also if slightly in time.
> > How can I add these two zones to the data ?
>
> Because these zones are identical to Europe/Rome for timestamps after 1970,
> they're out of scope for tzdb proper
> <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html#scope>. However, we do have
> a file
> 'backzone' for out-of-scope data (this file is not normally used in tzdb
> installations). So you can send in a patch for that file if you like,
> preferably
> in 'git format-patch' form. See Europe/Belfast for an example of what might
> appear in 'backzone'.
>
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