>From c3b5220a6e8ae1fbe324467774c0023737b17ab9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Thu, 7 Jul 2016 10:42:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Mention Time4J * NEWS: Document this. * tz-link.htm: Mention Time4J (thanks to Meno Hochschild) and modernize the discussion of Joda-Time. --- NEWS | 7 +++++++ tz-link.htm | 31 +++++++++++++++++++------------ 2 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index f59583f..fd9da82 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,12 @@ News for the tz database +Unreleased, experimental changes + + Changes affecting documentation and commentary + + tz-link.htm mentions Time4J. (Thanks to Meno Hochschild.) + + Release 2016f - 2016-07-05 16:26:51 +0200 Changes affecting future time stamps diff --git a/tz-link.htm b/tz-link.htm index adb4fac..312bd64 100644 --- a/tz-link.htm +++ b/tz-link.htm @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ content="Sources for time zone and daylight saving time data"> - + MIT license. href="http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/tzupdater-readme-136440.html">TZUpdater tool compiles tz source into the format used by Oracle Java. -
  • Joda-Time – Java date -and time API contains a class -org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler that compiles -tz source into a Joda-specific binary format. Joda Time -is freely available under a BSD-style license.
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  • Time4J – +Advanced date, time and interval library for Java contains a class +net.time4j.tool.TimezoneRepositoryCompiler that compiles +tz source into a binary format. +Joda-Time – Java date +and time API contains a similar class +org.joda.time.tz.ZoneInfoCompiler for a different binary format. +Time4J supplements Java 8 and earlier; Joda-Time is intended for Java +7 and earlier, as its functionality is a standard part of Java 8. +These packages are freely available under the +GNU +Lesser General Public License +(LGPL) +and the Apache +License, respectively.
  • Noda Time – Date and time API for .NET and TZ4Net -are similar to Joda Time, but for the .NET framework instead of +are similar to Time4J and Joda-Time, but for the .NET framework instead of Java. They are freely available under the -Apache License +Apache License and a BSD-style license, respectively.
  • JavaScript-based compilers and libraries include: @@ -393,10 +403,7 @@ href="http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/">GNU C Library has an independent, thread-safe implementation of a tz binary file reader. -This library is freely available under the - -GNU Lesser General Public License -(LGPL), +This library is freely available under the LGPL and is widely used in GNU/Linux systems.
  • GNOME's Glib has a tz binary file reader written in C that -- 2.5.5