The latest proposed 2014f version (as of 2014-08-01) can be viewed here: https://github.com/jodastephen/tzdiff/commit/39195c3177b935e856f02993994c4f6... I note that the data for Africa/Timbuktu remains changed, and is not mentioned in NEWS. This looks like an error. I have cross-checked the NEWS file to the other changes and they seem OK with the exception of the changes to links in West Africa, which remains a sore point. Stephen On 1 August 2014 06:21, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Thanks for those patches, which had a lot of thought behind them. I'm inclined to accept most of 0001-Revert-overzealous-zone-links on the grounds that the sheer size of the recent zone-to-link change is unprecedented and that this is off-putting. However, the general principle should remain what it's always been, which is that the database should contain good data and that it's OK to remove data that are questionable (e.g., no reliable sources) and are out of scope anyway. So I plan to keep a small part of the zone-to-link change, namely the part in west Africa, as its size is more in line with previous changes of this kind. We can do the rest of the zone-to-link changes later, as they're not urgent. This compromise solution won't make everybody happy (it certainly doesn't make *me* happy) but it is a reasonable path forward.
I'm not inclined to accept the 0002-Revert-introduction-of-time.tab patch, as that would leave Crozet Islands and the Scattered Islands uncovered by tzselect, and I'm loath to add a zone or link for them. Part of the point of the new table is to avoid the need to add new entries for tiny settlements and enclaves that merely mirror timekeeping elsewhere.
The other three patches (0003-A-few-more-changes-for-consistency, 0004-Corrections-for-Hungary-and-a-source-for-Poland, 0005-iso3166.tab-will-soon-switch-to-UTF-8) are mostly in the experimental version already, but I captured their comment fixes and found a couple more and came up with the attached first patch accordingly. The second attached patch implements the change for west Africa. I've pushed both of these into the experimental version on github.
At this point we're pretty much ready for a new release.