On 31/10/15 15:21, Guy Harris wrote:
Up until now one could not even guarantee that if
a distribution actually provided a version number that the content would match the same data from another distribution. You'll *never* be able to *guarantee* that, 100%, with anything short of a signature; you'll only be able to hope that the distribution provider doesn't do something stupid such as change the source files from what's in tzdata2017b without changing the version number to "2017b-frobozzlinux10.17".
Which is why tzdist is so urgently required. With a reliable publisher that provides a well documented, untruncated, data service and can be identified as the source of tz data, and will provide any version of tz data it hs provided going forward. Simply providing a 'current' tz service does not even cover the problems of data changes from one week to the next? -- Lester Caine - G8HFL ----------------------------- Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk