Paul, could you educate us all on what the publishing process with ICANN involves? Should it not be detailed in RFC6557 or some other document? Thanks, Matt ________________________________ From: tz-bounces@iana.org <tz-bounces@iana.org> on behalf of Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Sent: Monday, September 26, 2016 9:26 AM To: Deborah Goldsmith Cc: Time zone mailing list; Susan Abraham Subject: Re: [tz] tzdata 2016g On 09/26/2016 09:02 AM, Deborah Goldsmith wrote:
Is there any news on this? Any further word from ICANN?
Although the IESG has been pinged about the situation with https://www.iana.org/time-zones, I'm afraid I know of no news yet.In the IANA - Time Zone Database<https://www.iana.org/time-zones> www.iana.org Time Zone Database. The Time Zone Database (often called tz or zoneinfo) contains code and data that represent the history of local time for many representative ... meantime you should be able to get the 2016g data from the sources mentioned in earlier emails, in tar.gz, tar.lz, .zip or uncompressed form. Please see: http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2016-September/024162.html For what it's worth, Debian did that and is using 2016g now: https://packages.debian.org/sid/tzdata Debian -- Details of package tzdata in sid<https://packages.debian.org/sid/tzdata> packages.debian.org time zone and daylight-saving time data. This package contains data required for the implementation of standard local time for many representative locations around ...