[tz] 2016c on illumos - problems with new Russia entries

Random832 random832 at fastmail.com
Fri Apr 8 15:30:02 UTC 2016


On Fri, Apr 8, 2016, at 11:16, Paul_Koning at Dell.com wrote:
> It's there if you want to use it.  The tzdata are useful to everyone,
> whether they use zic or not, whether they use the supplied zic or some
> other.

I don't understand how that answers my question, of why there are no
binary packages, provided by this project, of the binary timezones. I
don't see what other purpose could be served by having the binary format
be architecture-independent.


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