Re: [ITP] tzcode: The time zone package

[Nicholas Wourms <nwourms at netscape dot net>]

Dr.Volker.Zell@oracle.com wrote:

> Hi
>
> I would like to contribute and maintain the timezone package:
>
>  * http://www.twinsun.com/tz/tz-link.htm
>
> a public-domain time zone database which contains code and data that
> represent the history of local time for many representative locations
> around the globe. This package contains the zic time zone compiler,
> the zdump timezone dump routine, and various timezone library routines.
> These functions deal with variations in the time zone rules in the world. 

Actually, cygwin uses most of the library code from the package directly 
in the dll.  So, instead of making a new library, perhaps updating the 
existing cygwin source files would be the way to go?  I'd even go as far 
to say that the timezone utils (which are very small) ought to also be 
in the utils distributed with the cygwin dll since this is how it is 
done with glibc.  The tzdata, however, could remain a separate package.

Whatever the decision, I think this would make a fine addition.  I vote yes.

Cheers,
Nicholas