[tz] Complexities of time rendered graphically

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Tue Dec 19 18:41:57 UTC 2017


On 12/18/2017 08:35 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
> In the IANA http: time-zones directory, those files seem to be named .html.
> In the code and data subdirectories, theory and tz-how-to have .html suffixes,
> tz-art and tz-link have .htm suffixes.
> In the IANA ftp: tz directory, these are evidently .html symlinks:
> theory.html -> code/theory.html
> tz-art.html -> code/tz-art.htm
> tz-how-to.html -> code/tz-how-to.html
> tz-link.html -> code/tz-link.htm

Yes, it is a bit of a mess. Although renaming tz-link.htm to 
tz-link.html will have some short-term (i.e, a few years' ...) pain, it 
should have long-term gain in preventing this sort of confusion. 
Proposed patch attached, and installed into the development repository.

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