To put this nest-poking to rest, see
http://www.iana.org/time-zones
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Prof Brian Ripley wrote:
Not as yet. Many much bigger users than us (almost all Unix-alike OSes,
Java, Tcl, MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle, ...) have more resources to
investigate.
Note that we only use the database on Windows, and only because OS services
are woefully inadequate on that platform: we could go back to using those
services ....
On Fri, 7 Oct 2011, Jeff Ryan wrote:
Does anyone from core have a comment on the implications for the R-project
on this:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/10/07/unix_time_zone_database_destroyed/
Given the inclusion of the TZ database with R as well as the functionality
used by R, is this something that the FSF is looking at yet?
Best,Jeff
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