<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:16, Bill Sommerfeld <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sommerfeld@alum.mit.edu">sommerfeld@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 10/08/11 01:06, Yann Droneaud wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<a href="https://github.com/lyda/tzdata" target="_blank">https://github.com/lyda/tzdata</a><br>
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Why host the tzdata on a US based service,<br>
are you looking for trouble ?<br>
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Distributed version control systems are highly resilient against loss. [...]<br>
<br>
Also, I'd hope that any repo that gets set up starts with something at least as old as the ancestral post to mod.sources in (I think) 1986.<font color="#888888"></font><br></blockquote></div><br><br>I don't know if it is any help, but I have a modest (but by no means complete) collection of the TZ code and data tar files dating back to 2002 (nowhere near 1986, but better than nothing).<br>
<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 170045 Feb 20 2006 tz32code2006b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 172888 Feb 20 2006 tz64code2006b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 14623658 Sep 26 2007 tzarchive.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 90157 Apr 2 2002 tzcode2002b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 98974 Dec 15 2003 tzcode2003e.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 168682 Jul 11 2005 tzcode2005j.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 168487 Jul 14 2005 tzcode2005k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 169051 Nov 21 2005 tzcode2005n.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 168815 Dec 27 2005 tzcode2005r.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 174663 Aug 28 2006 tzcode2006k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 174406 Oct 10 2006 tzcode2006n.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 175056 Jan 8 2007 tzcode2007a.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177552 May 7 2007 tzcode2007f.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177708 Aug 20 2007 tzcode2007g.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177869 Oct 1 2007 tzcode2007h.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177614 Dec 3 2007 tzcode2007j.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177510 Dec 31 2007 tzcode2007k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 176860 Sep 2 2008 tzcode2008e.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 176763 Oct 6 2008 tzcode2008g.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 176736 Oct 13 2008 tzcode2008h.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177120 Jan 21 2009 tzcode2009a.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177392 Feb 9 2009 tzcode2009b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177278 Apr 6 2009 tzcode2009e.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177629 May 26 2009 tzcode2009h.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 177678 Jul 20 2009 tzcode2009k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 178139 Nov 2 2009 tzcode2009q.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 178299 Nov 9 2009 tzcode2009r.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 178685 Mar 22 2010 tzcode2010f.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 178951 Aug 23 2010 tzcode2010l.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 179237 Oct 13 2010 tzcode2010m.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 179282 Oct 31 2010 tzcode2010n.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 180035 Jan 24 2011 tzcode2011a.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 180012 Feb 7 2011 tzcode2011b.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 180349 Mar 14 2011 tzcode2011d.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 180720 Apr 25 06:59 tzcode2011g.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 116957 Aug 29 15:50 tzcode2011i.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 101228 Apr 2 2002 tzdata2002b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 107596 Dec 15 2003 tzdata2003e.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 112375 Jul 11 2005 tzdata2005j.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 111731 Jul 14 2005 tzdata2005k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 114733 Nov 21 2005 tzdata2005n.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 115573 Dec 27 2005 tzdata2005r.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 116408 Feb 20 2006 tzdata2006b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 121974 Sep 18 2006 tzdata2006l.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 122027 Oct 10 2006 tzdata2006n.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 122336 Jan 8 2007 tzdata2007a.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 124409 May 7 2007 tzdata2007f.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 124469 Aug 20 2007 tzdata2007g.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 125501 Oct 1 2007 tzdata2007h.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 126189 Nov 1 2007 tzdata2007i.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 126476 Dec 3 2007 tzdata2007j.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 126763 Dec 31 2007 tzdata2007k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 132331 Sep 2 2008 tzdata2008e.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 133674 Sep 15 2008 tzdata2008f.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 134233 Oct 6 2008 tzdata2008g.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 134603 Oct 13 2008 tzdata2008h.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 134433 Oct 27 2008 tzdata2008i.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 135562 Jan 21 2009 tzdata2009a.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 134913 Feb 9 2009 tzdata2009b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 137125 Apr 13 2009 tzdata2009f.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 138070 May 26 2009 tzdata2009h.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 138886 Jul 20 2009 tzdata2009k.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 142267 Nov 2 2009 tzdata2009q.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 142687 Nov 16 2009 tzdata2009s.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 145487 Jan 25 2010 tzdata2010b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 145833 Mar 8 2010 tzdata2010d.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 145161 Mar 8 2010 tzdata2010e.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 145728 Mar 22 2010 tzdata2010f.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 146749 Apr 19 2010 tzdata2010i.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 148478 Aug 23 2010 tzdata2010l.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 148460 Oct 13 2010 tzdata2010m.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 148734 Oct 31 2010 tzdata2010n.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 149353 Jan 24 2011 tzdata2011a.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 149679 Feb 7 2011 tzdata2011b.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 150899 Mar 14 2011 tzdata2011d.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 151574 Apr 1 2011 tzdata2011e.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 151848 Apr 25 06:59 tzdata2011g.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 152348 Jun 27 04:49 tzdata2011h.tar.bz2<br>
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 154011 Aug 29 15:50 tzdata2011i.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 154939 Sep 12 07:59 tzdata2011j.tar.bz2<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 154943 Sep 26 12:55 tzdata2011k.tar.bz2<br clear="all">
<br>Obviously, they were distributed as gzipped tar files; I simply gunzip them and then bzip2 compress them (and should really switch to xz, but haven't bothered to do so yet).<br><br>-- <br>Jonathan Leffler <<a href="mailto:jonathan.leffler@gmail.com" target="_blank">jonathan.leffler@gmail.com</a>> #include <disclaimer.h><br>
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