On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 10:16, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@alum.mit.edu> wrote:

On 10/08/11 01:06, Yann Droneaud wrote:

https://github.com/lyda/tzdata

Why host the tzdata on a US based service,
are you looking for trouble ?

Distributed version control systems are highly resilient against loss. [...]

Also, I'd hope that any repo that gets set up starts with something at least as old as the ancestral post to mod.sources in (I think) 1986.

I don't know if it is any help, but I have a modest (but by no means complete) collection of the TZ code and data tar files dating back to 2002 (nowhere near 1986, but better than nothing).

-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    170045 Feb 20 2006 tz32code2006b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    172888 Feb 20 2006 tz64code2006b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff 14623658 Sep 26 2007 tzarchive.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff     90157 Apr 2 2002 tzcode2002b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff     98974 Dec 15 2003 tzcode2003e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    168682 Jul 11 2005 tzcode2005j.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    168487 Jul 14 2005 tzcode2005k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    169051 Nov 21 2005 tzcode2005n.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    168815 Dec 27 2005 tzcode2005r.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    174663 Aug 28 2006 tzcode2006k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    174406 Oct 10 2006 tzcode2006n.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    175056 Jan 8 2007 tzcode2007a.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177552 May 7 2007 tzcode2007f.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177708 Aug 20 2007 tzcode2007g.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177869 Oct 1 2007 tzcode2007h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177614 Dec 3 2007 tzcode2007j.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177510 Dec 31 2007 tzcode2007k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    176860 Sep 2 2008 tzcode2008e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    176763 Oct 6 2008 tzcode2008g.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    176736 Oct 13 2008 tzcode2008h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177120 Jan 21 2009 tzcode2009a.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177392 Feb 9 2009 tzcode2009b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177278 Apr 6 2009 tzcode2009e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177629 May 26 2009 tzcode2009h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    177678 Jul 20 2009 tzcode2009k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    178139 Nov 2 2009 tzcode2009q.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    178299 Nov 9 2009 tzcode2009r.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    178685 Mar 22 2010 tzcode2010f.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    178951 Aug 23 2010 tzcode2010l.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    179237 Oct 13 2010 tzcode2010m.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    179282 Oct 31 2010 tzcode2010n.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    180035 Jan 24 2011 tzcode2011a.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    180012 Feb 7 2011 tzcode2011b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    180349 Mar 14 2011 tzcode2011d.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    180720 Apr 25 06:59 tzcode2011g.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    116957 Aug 29 15:50 tzcode2011i.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    101228 Apr 2 2002 tzdata2002b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    107596 Dec 15 2003 tzdata2003e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    112375 Jul 11 2005 tzdata2005j.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    111731 Jul 14 2005 tzdata2005k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    114733 Nov 21 2005 tzdata2005n.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    115573 Dec 27 2005 tzdata2005r.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    116408 Feb 20 2006 tzdata2006b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    121974 Sep 18 2006 tzdata2006l.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    122027 Oct 10 2006 tzdata2006n.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    122336 Jan 8 2007 tzdata2007a.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    124409 May 7 2007 tzdata2007f.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    124469 Aug 20 2007 tzdata2007g.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    125501 Oct 1 2007 tzdata2007h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    126189 Nov 1 2007 tzdata2007i.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    126476 Dec 3 2007 tzdata2007j.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    126763 Dec 31 2007 tzdata2007k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    132331 Sep 2 2008 tzdata2008e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    133674 Sep 15 2008 tzdata2008f.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    134233 Oct 6 2008 tzdata2008g.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    134603 Oct 13 2008 tzdata2008h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    134433 Oct 27 2008 tzdata2008i.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    135562 Jan 21 2009 tzdata2009a.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    134913 Feb 9 2009 tzdata2009b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    137125 Apr 13 2009 tzdata2009f.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    138070 May 26 2009 tzdata2009h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    138886 Jul 20 2009 tzdata2009k.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    142267 Nov 2 2009 tzdata2009q.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    142687 Nov 16 2009 tzdata2009s.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    145487 Jan 25 2010 tzdata2010b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    145833 Mar 8 2010 tzdata2010d.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    145161 Mar 8 2010 tzdata2010e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    145728 Mar 22 2010 tzdata2010f.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    146749 Apr 19 2010 tzdata2010i.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    148478 Aug 23 2010 tzdata2010l.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    148460 Oct 13 2010 tzdata2010m.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    148734 Oct 31 2010 tzdata2010n.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    149353 Jan 24 2011 tzdata2011a.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    149679 Feb 7 2011 tzdata2011b.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    150899 Mar 14 2011 tzdata2011d.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    151574 Apr 1 2011 tzdata2011e.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    151848 Apr 25 06:59 tzdata2011g.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    152348 Jun 27 04:49 tzdata2011h.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    154011 Aug 29 15:50 tzdata2011i.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    154939 Sep 12 07:59 tzdata2011j.tar.bz2
-rw-r--r-- 1 jleffler staff    154943 Sep 26 12:55 tzdata2011k.tar.bz2

Obviously, they were distributed as gzipped tar files; I simply gunzip them and then bzip2 compress them (and should really switch to xz, but haven't bothered to do so yet).

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