[tz] Deprecating POSIX Zones to Links?

[Paul Eggert]

On 2024-05-22 08:32, Yoshito Umaoka wrote:
> I propose -
> 
> 1) Move these legacy zones to “backzone” with keeping the current definition.
> 2) Also add them in “backward” file, but change EST5EDT and others as “Link” of modern zone sharing same historic offsets.

Thanks, good suggestions. I installed the attached patches into the 
development repository on GitHub to attempt to implement them; please 
give the patches a try.
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