<font size=2 face="sans-serif">This might have been talked about recently,
but I don't remember any resolution.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I have a script which polls the IANA
Website daily to detect if there has been any update. It parses the
html to find the latest version and then checks to see if the version has
changed since the last time. This solution is fragile and could easily
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">I don't see any way of detecting the
version from the ftp or rsync sites as the "real" filename which
contains the version has been replaced with a link tzdata-latest.tar.gz.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It would be better if a version file
was added to the ftp and rsync sites which contained the version identifier
of the release. </font>
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