[tz] [PROPOSED PATCH] * Makefile, NEWS: Say that backzone's contents are not all low-quality
Paul Eggert
eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Aug 26 05:01:41 UTC 2014
and give credit to Lester Caine for some of its high-quality entries.
---
Makefile | 4 ++--
NEWS | 9 +++++----
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 2354a3f..8ccbaf4 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ LIBDIR= $(TOPDIR)/lib
# below. If you want both sets of data available, with leap seconds counted
# normally, use
# REDO= right_posix
-# below. If you want just POSIX-compatible time values, but with extra
-# lower-quality data from the file 'backzone', use
+# below. If you want just POSIX-compatible time values, but with
+# out-of-scope and often-wrong data from the file 'backzone', use
# REDO= posix_packrat
# POSIX mandates that leap seconds not be counted; for compatibility with it,
# use "posix_only", "posix_right", or "posix_packrat".
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 3c8b84b..8302547 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
A new file 'backzone' contains data which may appeal to
connoisseurs of old time stamps, although it is out of scope for
- the tz database and is often poorly sourced. The new file is not
- recommended for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by
- default. (Thanks to Lester Caine for the Guernsey, Jersey, and
- Isle of Man entries in 'backzone'.)
+ the tz database, is often poorly sourced, and contains some data
+ that is known to be incorrect. The new file is not recommended
+ for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by default.
+ (Thanks to Lester Caine for the high-quality Jersey, Guernsey, and
+ Isle of Man entries.)
Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed
from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual,
--
1.9.1
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