Sept. 28, 2016
7:50 p.m.
I am also in favor of this. See this thread from last year where I suggested something similar: https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2015-October/022807.html On 09/28/2016 03:35 PM, Alexander Belopolsky wrote:
On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 3:26 PM, Jon Skeet <skeet@pobox.com <mailto:skeet@pobox.com>> wrote:
another vote for a stable, easily-machine-readable place for the version number to be included in the data tar.gz file.
I would also ask for this file to be installable in the zoneinfo directory. On many systems it is impossible to figure out what version of tzdata they use.