[tz] Turkey to delay DST

Øyvind A. Holm sunny at sunbase.org
Wed Feb 26 18:16:34 UTC 2014


On 26 February 2014 19:10, Tim Parenti <tim at timtimeonline.com> wrote:
> On 26 February 2014 13:05, Øyvind A. Holm <sunny at sunbase.org> wrote:
> > On 26 February 2014 18:29, Lester Caine <lester at lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Øyvind A. Holm wrote:
> > > > Experimetal? I think it would be a great solution to have the
> > > > official tz database placed in a Git repo somewhere, and GitHub
> > > > is a nice place to put it. Are there any other official tz
> > > > repositories somewhere?
> > >
> > > The experimental version IS on github. But github is not the best
> > > place to manage releases! Only developing the next release.
> >
> > I agree on that. But it would be nice to have an official "blessed"
> > location where the development happens so we get a full
> > authoritative history of the changes. But it seems as
> > github.com/eggert/tz/ is the most "official" repository at the
> > moment, and based on Paul's history with the project, it seems as
> > the correct place to have it for now. If there should be some
> > changes in that opinion (GitHub getting difficult or something),
> > it's easy to push it somewhere else. I was just wondering if that
> > repo is recognised as the official place where all the good stuff
> > happens, and it looks like that to me.
>
> Ah, yes; you are correct Øyvind.  You can think of
> https://github.com/eggert/tz as the "official experimental"
> repository; i.e., the official place where changes are staged; whereas
> http://www.iana.org/time-zones is currently the only official avenue
> for full stable releases.

Thanks for the clarification. This is a great way to do it.

Regards,
Øyvind



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