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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2020-01-09 23:00:25 -0800
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Update timezone/README
* timezone/version: New file, also taken from tzcode2018i. * timezone/README: Reword so that people needn't paw through old ChangeLog files to see which version we're using, a process that is error-prone. Update an obsolescent URL.
Diffstat (limited to 'timezone')
-rw-r--r--timezone/README14
-rw-r--r--timezone/version1
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/timezone/README b/timezone/README
index fc50f13..2297558 100644
--- a/timezone/README
+++ b/timezone/README
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
The files
- zic.c zdump.c tzfile.h private.h tzselect.ksh
+ zic.c zdump.c tzfile.h private.h tzselect.ksh version
come from the tzcode package by Arthur David Olson et.al.
+The 'version' file specifies which tzcode version was used.
The files
africa antarctica asia australasia europe
@@ -8,14 +9,15 @@ The files
backward systemv solar87 solar88 solar89
iso3166.tab zone.tab leapseconds yearistype
come from the tzdata package by Arthur David Olson et.al.
-
-Please check the ChangeLog files in the top level directory for the
-version of the tzcode and tzdata packages.
+except that its 'yearistype.sh' file is renamed to 'yearistype'.
+These tzdata files were taken from tzdata 2009i and have not been
+updated since, as they do not affect glibc installation and are
+present only for regression testing.
Please also see: https://sourceware.org/glibc/wiki/SharedSourceFiles
-These packages may be found at ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/. Commentary
-should be addressed to tz@iana.org.
+These packages may be found at https://ftp.iana.org/tz/releases/.
+Commentary should be addressed to tz@iana.org.
The subdirectory testdata contains manually edited data files for
regression testing purposes.
diff --git a/timezone/version b/timezone/version
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63f5800
--- /dev/null
+++ b/timezone/version
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+2018i