<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 4:12 PM, Paul Eggert <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eggert@cs.ucla.edu" target="_blank">eggert@cs.ucla.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><span class="gmail-">On 09/28/2016 12:35 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:<br>
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I would also ask for this file to be installable in the zoneinfo directory. On many systems it is impossible to figure out what version of tzdata they use. <br>
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It should be installable, for those who want to install it there. </blockquote><div><br></div><div>By "installable" I mean "make install" should copy it to $TZDIR.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">There is a bit of fun if someone runs the shell command 'TZ="version" date'; this ends up being equivalent to 'TZ="GMT0" date' in the reference implementation (assuming the version number does not begin with "TZif"!).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can have the same fun with TZ=zone.tab now.</div></div><br><br></div></div>