<Paul_Koning@Dell.com> wrote: |I would like to mention another consideration. | |The tzdata database is used in embedded systems, not just workstations/servers with lots of memory and disk space. For that usage, it needs to be complete. But having lots of extra references to a given set of zone rules, to satisfy user interface polishing requirements, is a problem for memory-limited systems. On the other hand, now that Paul Eggert has switched to git(1), selective branches would be possible, automatically setup from a worker branch. Or multiple make(1) rules. Or multiple zone.tabs with several levels of detail, for more specific addressing and/or converting "comments" into easy translatable entities or atoms which then can be used directly for other purposes, like geoname lookup, or whatever, maybe setup via a script, as above, to choose the level of detail. zone.tab was 19913 bytes for (Release tzcode2012e and tzdata2012e., 2012-08-02), that is not much for entire planet earth, so to say. |Could we please move UI improvements out of the TZ project? You're welcome. | paul --steffen