Revision History of TZ database

Dave Rolsky autarch at urth.org
Thu Mar 26 20:48:02 UTC 2009


On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Jason Cipriani wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 4:36 PM, Dave Rolsky <autarch at urth.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E] wrote:
>>
>>> The file...
>>>        ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzarchive.gz
>>> ...has everything from the mailing list back to the beginning. For the
>>> 2007-to-2009 period mentioned in the electronic mail, the URL...
>>>        http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/nslu2/sources/?C=N;O=D
>>> ...provided by Oregon State University has time zone packages from 2007 to
>>> 2009; extracting and running diff will do the job.
>>
>> It would be really fantastic if the source for the database was kept in a
>> publically accessible source repository of some modern variety.
>
> Agreed; and rather trivial to set up source control of some sort,
> assuming you have a server to host it on (a reasonable assumption).

There's github, bitkeeper, sourceforge, and innumerable other services.

Having a server of one's own is definitely not a requirement.


-dave

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