El 7 de octubre de 2011 10:34, Edwin Boza <[email protected]> escribió:
> Acabo de leer que la base de datos TZ (con información sobe las zonas > horarias) tiene problemas legales que han llevado a un cierre al menos > temporal: > Copyright para las zonas horarias?! esto es el colmo, es absurdo! se los acusa de ¡distribución ilegal de información! Esta es una mala noticia que nos afecta seriamente, copio este correo a algunas listas y a los demandantes (Astrolabe). Ojala ustedes se animen a hacer lo mismo y envíen un correo a Astrolab si es que sienten que esta acción les afecta. Los correos de esta gente son (están entre los destinatarios de este hilo): Information: [email protected]<[email protected]?subject=Astrolabe%20Feedback> , Tech Support: [email protected] <[email protected]?subject=Tech%20Support> Order questions: [email protected] Sales and nonTech questions: [email protected] Webmaster: [email protected] Y por si les interesa Astrolab tiene una lista de correos: http://visitor.constantcontact.com/email.jsp?m=1011231931123* *Saludos.* Tomado de wikipedia.org:* The tz database is used for time zone processing and conversions in many computer software systems, including: - BSD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution>-derived systems, including FreeBSD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD>, NetBSD<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetBSD>, OpenBSD <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD>, DragonFly BSD<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DragonFly_BSD>, and Mac OS X <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X>; - the GNU C Library <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_C_Library> and systems that use it, including GNU <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU>, most Linux distributions<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_distributions>, BeOS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS>, Haiku<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_%28operating_system%29>, Nexenta OS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nexenta_OS>, and Cygwin<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cygwin> ; - System V Release 4 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/System_V_Release_4>-derived systems, such as Solaris<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%28operating_system%29>and UnixWare <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UnixWare>; - AIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_AIX_%28operating_system%29> 6.1 and later[20]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-Olsontzsetup-19> [21] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXTZ-20>(earlier versions of AIX, starting with AIX 5.2, include zoneinfo [22] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXLinuxinfo-21>, for support of third-party applications such as MySQL<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MySQL> [23] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-22>, but do not use it themselves[22]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXLinuxinfo-21> [24] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-AIXwiki-23>); - several other Unix <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix> systems, including Tru64 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tru64>, and UNICOS<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNICOS>/mp (also IRIX <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRIX>, still maintained but no longer shipped); - OpenVMS <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenVMS>; - the Java Runtime Environment<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Java_Runtime_Environment>since release 1.4 (2002); - the Perl <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perl> modules DateTime::TimeZone<http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime-TimeZone/>and DateTime::LeapSecond <http://search.cpan.org/dist/DateTime/> since 2003; - PHP <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP> releases since 5.1.0 (2005); - the Python<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29>module pytz <http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytz/2010o>; - the .NET Framework <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.NET_Framework> module zoneinfo <http://zoneinfo.codeplex.com/>; - Oracle <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oracle_Database> releases since 10g (2004);[25] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-24> - PostgreSQL <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PostgreSQL> since release 8.0 (2005); - embedded software such as the firmware used in IP clocks. The Olson timezone IDs are also used by the Unicode Common Locale Data Repository <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Locale_Data_Repository>(CLDR) and International Components for Unicode<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Components_for_Unicode>(ICU). For example, the CLDR Windows → Tzid table maps Microsoft Windows time zone IDs to the standard Olson names.[26]<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database#cite_note-25> -- Jonathan.
