On Jul 20, 2018, at 10:58, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Plus, distributors need to include something better than "# version unknown", which is what Red Hat is doing unfortunately. See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1604030 <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1604030> On any RedHat-ish system, one can get the TZ version very easily by doing:
*** snip snip *** [fredg@elastigirl ~]$ rpm -q tzdata tzdata-2018e-3.el7.noarch *** snip snip *** Or the equivalent programmatic call to the RPM database. This, of course, is horrendously platform-specific, but that illustrates the larger point: TZDB has historically been integrated in all sorts of ways on all sorts of platforms; to expect a new ‘one true way to get the version’ to get any kind of traction at this point is rather utopian. Cheers! |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | Frederick F. Gleason, Jr. | Chief Developer | | | Paravel Systems | |----------------------------------------------------------------------| | I looked out my window, and saw Kyle Petty's car upside down, then I | | thought "one of us is in real trouble". | | -- Davey Allison, on a 150 mph crash | |----------------------------------------------------------------------|