
Aug. 22, 2016
11:12 a.m.
Jon Skeet wrote:
Given the other reactions around file merging, perhaps the data file should just be hosted as a separate file?
Hmm, I think I'd rather not ship *three* tarballs per release for the indefinite future. *Two* tarballs are already too many. As the new .tzs file is closely associated with the data, it belongs in the tzdata tarball when we're talking about old-format distributions. By the way, I picked a 2050 cutoff date for the draft .tzs partly because I wanted to check a few years past the 2038 limit imposed by 32-bit signed time_t. I didn't go too much past 2050 partly to cut down on bloat, and partly because the reference implementation of zdump is too slow.