Re: [tz] Uruguay out of DST

On Jul 11, 2015, at 7:11 PM, Matt Johnson <mj1856@hotmail.com> wrote:

It's not just ICU. There are dozens of software frameworks and libraries that depend on tzdata

Presumably meaning "depend on their own copies of tzdata" (perhaps because they have to run on OSes that don't ship with tzdata, e.g. Windows and some versions of UN*X or, at least, older releases of those versions). ("date" depends, indirectly, on tzdata, but it doesn't ship with its own copy. :-)) If there are other reasons for maintaining their own copies of tzdata, perhaps improvements to the UN*X time APIs could help.