(was Further un-ASCII-fication and typos) Unfortunately, this commit (363a1be6dfb3c0e5398b28cb4f0f3778157ddbe7 <https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/363a1be6dfb3c0e5398b28cb4f0f3778157ddbe7>) introduced changes to usno1989, which specifically says at the top that "no corrections have been made"; that is, it is unchanged from the original. This is distinct from usno1989a, which appears to be the same data, but corrected. This raises the question, why are we retaining the usno* files in the first place? Although I'm sure there was a reason originally, it seems to have faded over time, and the most recent edition is 16 years old. I would be surprised if we didn't already have all this information elsewhere. -- Tim Parenti On 25 June 2014 04:06, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
Thanks for those fixes. I installed them into the experimental version on github. That's pretty good, fixing a spelling error in French -- I would not have caught that. You inspired me to find some more spelling mistakes, one in Spanish, plus a few accent fixes. I applied the attached patch too. I'm sure there are more errors like that.
On 06/25/2014 01:09 PM, Tim Parenti wrote:
why are we retaining the usno* files in the first place?
Only inertia, as far as I know. These latest glitches suggest that they're more trouble than they're worth nowadays, and that it's time to remove them. Attached is a proposed patch, which I've added to the experimental version on github.
The attached additional patch restores the original dates of reference to the commentary, where appropriate. Relative to commit 437a13201659d805fbdea9e89cbf22023de3ba79 <https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/437a13201659d805fbdea9e89cbf22023de3ba79>, dated Wed Jun 25 13:53:15 2014 -0700. -- Tim Parenti On 25 June 2014 16:58, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
On 06/25/2014 01:09 PM, Tim Parenti wrote:
why are we retaining the usno* files in the first place?
Only inertia, as far as I know. These latest glitches suggest that they're more trouble than they're worth nowadays, and that it's time to remove them. Attached is a proposed patch, which I've added to the experimental version on github.
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