[tz] minor problem in www.iana.org

Martin Burnicki martin.burnicki at meinberg.de
Fri Jul 5 14:56:10 UTC 2013


Denis Excoffier wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The file
> http://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzcode2013c.tar.gz
> indicated in http://www.iana.org/time-zones
> as being of size 132.4kb is in fact in un-gzipped format
> and its size is 522240 bytes (i mean: this is the file i get when
> i wget the path).
>
> For the content of it, no problem. Same for tzdata.
>
> I suppose that this has been correct at the end of April, since my personal
> copy has the right format (and small size).
>
> Regards,
>
> Denis Excoffier.

Indeed, the Linux "file" command says this is just a "POSIX tar archive 
(GNU)" whereas it should say "gzip compressed data".

Martin



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