[tz] Unicode CLDR supplemental/windowsZones.xml update?

[Brian Inglis]

On 2024-05-26 14:54, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
> Duh. Yup. I didn't look carefully enough at the file from clrd-release-45.
> It did confuse me because is does have the same line:
> <mapTimezones otherVersion="7e11800" typeVersion="2021a">
> And it's the same length.
> But the changes are there.
> Seems like that line should update?

> On 2024-05-26 04:34 PM, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
>> On 2024-05-26 04:12 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>> On 2024-05-26 12:44, Brooks Harris wrote:
>>>> Hi Pail,
>>>> On 2024-05-26 03:37 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
>>>>> On 2024-05-26 12:30, Brooks Harris via tz wrote:
>>>>>> What is the best procedure to obtain the latest windowsZones.xml?

>>>>> https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/main/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml

>>>> This file is identical to the old one I have and does not reflect the 
>>>> commits you referred me to.

>>> That's not a file, it's a bunch of info about the file. The info includes the 
>>> file contents and a bunch of other stuff. If you just want the file, click 
>>> the Raw button.

>> OK, I'm feeling stupid.
>> I hit the RAW button and I see the same 2021a file.
>>  No matter what I do, and I've tried lots of things, refresh, restart 
>> browsers, all that stuff, and I see this same file again and again.

>>>>>> Is there a record of earlier versions?
>>>>> https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/commits/main/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml
>>>>> These are reachable from the earlier URL I emailed.
>>>> Right, but no version of windowsZones.xml I can find has those commits applied.

>>> ? Those changes are visible to me via that URL.
>>> Anyway, try clicking the "Raw" button. It should give you this URL:
>>> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/unicode-org/cldr/main/common/supplemental/windowsZones.xml
>>> and I see the changes there too.

>> I'm just not seeing those changes. I do not understand why yet.
>> I see the file with the line
>> <mapTimezones otherVersion="7e11800" typeVersion="2021a">

Look at it as just CLDR internal documentation of the timezone mapping version 
they use, possibly in some other tool, as it seems to be validated but not used 
here:

https://github.com/macchiati/cldr/blob/51bd432a2060c25061966708b553163973933f9d/common/dtd/ldmlSupplemental.dtd#L480

>> And the same 798 lines.
>> Has there been some sort of time anomaly where I've been frozen in 2021?
>> Thanks for getting back. Seems to be my pilot error, I'll work on it.

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