Re: [tz] Data loss on FTP Server

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote on Tue, 31 Oct 2017 at 23:39:55 -0700 in <7019cc6f-34fb-d372-b14a-2dfd41bfc86a@cs.ucla.edu>:

1. Set up https://ftp.iana.org/tz so that it contains the same files that ftp://ftp.iana.org/tz does, in the same locations.

While there's nothing wrong with this, and arguably it makes a certain amount of sense, why not do so with https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/ which is where you'd expect to find them by lopping off the tail of the URL? (given https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/releases/tzdb-2017c.tar.lz) Of course they are not mutually exclusive -- perhaps they should do the same thing or one should redirect to the other. --jhawk@mit.edu John Hawkinson