On 2020-06-09 22:37, Mark Geisert wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jun 2020, Brian Inglis wrote: >> On 2020-05-26 02:27, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>> On May 26 00:09, Mark Geisert wrote: >>>> Corinna Vinschen wrote: >>>>>> On May 22 02:32, Mark Geisert wrote: >>>>> On May 25 14:06, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> The tzcode package needs updated to get fixes into zic and zdump. >> Also tzdata was maintained by Yaakov. >> >> Corinna, would you like to keep tzcode co-maintained with Yaakov? >> >> Or Mark, would you like to ITA tzcode and/or tzdata to keep it in sync with >> the >> base code? >> >> Or would you like me to ITA tzcode and/or tzdata? >> I currently check tzdb weekly in cron to download updates for my own >> interests. >> I could add cygport builds to that job. > > This "tzcode" patch I did was a one-shot task just getting some time zone > handling code within the Cygwin DLL up to date. I don't know if there's any > overlap between what I worked on and the tzcode+tzdata packages. Eh, just the > internal binary copy of a particular tzdata file which should be kept up to > date: /usr/share/zoneinfo/posixrules. Dunno how often that changes though. > > It's fine with me for you to take over both tzcode+tzdata if nobody else > objects. Sounds like you have a regular schedule for looking over updates > which > is more than I have :-).
Thanks Mark, I'll wait to see if we hear from Corinna or ITA if no response soon. I'm also a subscriber to the timezone ML so see the announcements, but am too lazy to kick off a manual process, when an automatic process could do it within the week! ;^> Cheers! -- Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis, Calgary, Alberta, Canada This email may be disturbing to some readers as it contains too much technical detail. Reader discretion is advised. [Data in IEC units and prefixes, physical quantities in SI.]
