From bdad90f18ff0408aec5b083060beadd0f3dca682 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paul Eggert Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 21:58:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] * Makefile, NEWS: Say that backzone's contents are not all low-quality and give credit to Lester Caine for some of its high-quality entries. --- Makefile | 4 ++-- NEWS | 9 +++++---- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile index 2354a3f..8ccbaf4 100644 --- a/Makefile +++ b/Makefile @@ -84,8 +84,8 @@ LIBDIR= $(TOPDIR)/lib # below. If you want both sets of data available, with leap seconds counted # normally, use # REDO= right_posix -# below. If you want just POSIX-compatible time values, but with extra -# lower-quality data from the file 'backzone', use +# below. If you want just POSIX-compatible time values, but with +# out-of-scope and often-wrong data from the file 'backzone', use # REDO= posix_packrat # POSIX mandates that leap seconds not be counted; for compatibility with it, # use "posix_only", "posix_right", or "posix_packrat". diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 3c8b84b..8302547 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -26,10 +26,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes A new file 'backzone' contains data which may appeal to connoisseurs of old time stamps, although it is out of scope for - the tz database and is often poorly sourced. The new file is not - recommended for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by - default. (Thanks to Lester Caine for the Guernsey, Jersey, and - Isle of Man entries in 'backzone'.) + the tz database, is often poorly sourced, and contains some data + that is known to be incorrect. The new file is not recommended + for ordinary use and its entries are not installed by default. + (Thanks to Lester Caine for the high-quality Jersey, Guernsey, and + Isle of Man entries.) Some more zones have been turned into links, when they differed from existing zones only for older time stamps. As usual,