[tz] Re: [PATCH] Don't mention boulder.nist.gov

2025-04-18 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
On 2025-04-18 01:08 PM, Tim Parenti wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 at 12:58, Brooks Harris via tz wrote: So seems somebody updated that one from some other source? Such as: https://hpiers.obspm.fr/iers/bul/bulc/ntp/leap-seconds.list Yes, tzdata started preferring and pulling directly from IERS

[tz] Re: [PATCH] Don't mention boulder.nist.gov

2025-04-18 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
On 2025-04-18 12:12 PM, Tim Parenti via tz wrote: On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 at 04:00, Collin Funk via tz wrote: The generated leapseconds file mentions the data can be retrieved from ftp.boulder.nist.gov/pub/time/leap-seconds.list, but the domain no longer resolves. The domain definitely still res

[tz] Re: EST5EDT should not resolve to America/New_York because they have different offsets

2025-02-20 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
On 2025-02-20 04:17 PM, Guy Harris wrote: On Feb 20, 2025, at 12:37 PM, Brooks Harris via tz wrote: On 2025-02-20 02:45 PM, Paul Eggert via tz wrote: In other words, users don't really want true System V compatibility. They just want to keep using the same name for US eastern time. T

[tz] Re: EST5EDT should not resolve to America/New_York because they have different offsets

2025-02-20 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
On 2025-02-20 02:45 PM, Paul Eggert via tz wrote: On 2025-02-20 11:26, Tom Lane wrote: I take the OP's point to be that if we're keeping it around for System V compatibility, it ought to continue to mean what it meant on System V Unfortunately doing that would cause more trouble than it'd cure

[tz] Re: ELIZA Reanimated

2025-01-23 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
On 2025-01-21 09:11 AM, Robert Elz via tz wrote: Date:Mon, 20 Jan 2025 22:42:55 -0500 From:Brooks Harris via tz Message-ID:<2e45daa6-67c7-4ee5-b1d8-fd93a4c2a...@edlmax.com> | Has anyone asked ELIZA what time it is? Why do you want to know what time it is? :-)

[tz] ELIZA Reanimated

2025-01-20 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
ELIZA Reanimated: The world’s first chatbot restored on the world’s first time sharing system https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06707 Has anyone asked ELIZA what time it is?

[tz] Re: Windows compile failure for iana time zones

2025-01-14 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
On 2025-01-14 03:35 PM, Paul Eggert wrote: On 2025-01-14 06:29, Brooks Harris via tz wrote: I am currently using MSVC 6.0, circa 1999 OK, but I think Microsoft supports Visual Studio for only ten years and support for MSVC 6.0 ended in 2008[1]. I'm painfully aware of that. Nonetheless I

[tz] Re: Windows compile failure for iana time zones

2025-01-14 Thread Brooks Harris via tz
I am currently using MSVC 6.0, circa 1999,  as my primary development IDE/compiler for number of reasons. Its _MSC_VER is 1200: int iWinVer = _MSC_VER; result: iWinVer == 1200; I have not used any earlier Microsoft compilers since 1999. I cannot speak to their _MSC_VER versions. MSVC 6.0 is