[Lunar-commits] glibc, timezone-data: Resolve conflict between files installed.
Kok, Auke
sofar at foo-projects.org
Tue Dec 11 19:39:23 CET 2007
Jon South wrote:
> Moritz Heiber wrote:
>> Hey Chad, glad you're jumping in. I'm sorry I didn't bother to ask you
>> until now .. but I think this is the cleaner approach. Also, are there
>> so many changes around the world justifying a constant up-to-date
>> timezone information (I'm clueless here .. enlighten me! :-)?
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Moritz
>>
>> PS: With the new glibc module we can actually follow glibc releases
>> more frequently .. that means much more up-to-date timezone information
>> either.
>
> I'd vote for using timezone-data instead seeing how there have been
> times when timezones change faster than we release glibc updates. Also,
> I really dont understand why timezone info is bundled with glibc...when
> the US Government changed daylight savings, my mind didn't think "Oh, I
> better update glibc then!" Instead, I went looking for a timezone
> module, which is obviously more intuitive ;)
second that, totally makes more sense to me.
Auke
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