This was experimental, and it appears that the tzwinnow
approach will be better. We need to cut a new stable
release soon, and the -t option might make it harder to
integrate tzwinnow later, so let's omit -t for now.
* .gitignore: Remove time.tab.
* Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): Remove. All uses removed.
(time.tab): Remove. All uses removed.
* Theory: Omit discussion of time.tab.
* zone-time.awk: Remove.
* tzselect.8: Omit -t and time.tab.
* tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): Remove. All uses removed.
Remove -t ZONETABTYPE option.
* zone.tab: Restore first comment line, since there's no longer
a need to distinguish this file from time.tab.
Other tz file readers had problems with the new pre1970 file, so
remove it and related changes. To recover the pre-1970 data,
instead change pre-1970 Zone entries in other files back to what
they were. Perhaps we'll try to find a better way someday.
* .gitignore: Remove back-pre1970.
* Makefile (BACKWARD): Remove. All uses changed back to 'backward'.
(AWK_SCRIPTS): Remove back-pre1970.awk.
(back-pre1970): Remove.
(clean_misc): Don't rm back-pre1970.
(check_public): Remove special case for pre1970.
* back-pre1970.awk, pre1970: Remove.
* backward (America/Anguilla, America/Antigua, America/Aruba)
(America/Atikokan, America/Blanc-Sablon, America/Cayman)
(America/Creston, America/Curacao, America/Dominica, America/Grenada)
(America/Guadeloupe, America/Montreal, America/Montserrat)
(America/Nassau, America/Port_of_Spain, America/St_Kitts)
(America/St_Lucia, America/St_Thomas, America/St_Vincent)
(America/Tortola): Remove, as these are zones again.
(America/Coral_Harbour, America/Kralendijk, America/Lower_Princes)
(America/Marigot, America/St_Barthelemy, America/Virgin):
Revert to previous links.
* northamerica (Mont, America/Blanc-Sablon, America/Montreal)
(America/Atikokan, America/Creston, America/Anguilla, America/Antigua)
(Bahamas, America/Nassau, America/Cayman, America/Dominica)
(America/Grenada, America/Guadeloupe, America/Montserrat)
(America/St_Kitts, America/St_Lucia, America/St_Vincent)
(America/Tortola, America/St_Thomas):
* southamerica (America/Aruba, America/Curacao, America/Port_of_Spain):
Restore these rules and zones.
* .gitignore: Add back-pre1970.
This lets us preserve information about pre-1970 time stamps when
we change a Zone to a Link to another zone whose time stamps agree
after 1970. This should address concerns about some recent
changes that removed this information. This implementation is a
stripped-down version of a suggestion by Andrew Main (Zefram) in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019615.html> and
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019639.html> to
allow filtering tz data by date range. Unlike Zefram's
suggestion, this implementation supports only two date ranges,
namely 1970 on, using 'make BACKWARD=backward'; and all dates,
using 'make BACKWARD="pre1970 back-pre1970"'. At some point I'd
like to improve it to support arbitrary date ranges, but at least
we've now restored the data whose loss was of some concern.
* .gitignore: Add back-pre1970.
* Makefile (BACKWARD): New macro.
(YDATA): Use it instead of 'backward'.
(AWK_SCRIPTS): New macro, with additional script back-pre1970.awk.
(MISC): Use it.
(back-pre1970): New rule.
(clean_misc): Clean back-pre1970. Also clean time.tab, while we're
at it.
(check_public): Don't require pre1970 to stand alone.
* pre1970, back-pre1970.awk: New files.
This is a backwards-compatible way of transitioning to a less
politically-charged approach to choosing TZ values. A new time
zone table time.tab acts like zone.tab, except it omits TZ values
that are present only for political reasons. tzselect has a new
"-t zonetabtype" option that lets users select which time zone table
to use, and installers can select the default table. The zone.tab
file does not change, and the default tzselect table for now is
zone.tab. This avoids the backward-compatibility concerns
expressed on the tz mailing list; see, for example,
the discussion surrounding Derick Rethans's comments in
<http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2013-August/019544.html>
* .gitignore: Add time.tab.
* Makefile (ZONETABTYPE): New macro.
(TABDATA): Add time.tab.
(all): Depend on $(TABDATA).
(install): Do not depend on $(TABDATA), since $(DATA) includes it.
Install time.tab too.
(time.tab): New rule.
(tzselect.tab): Substitute ZONETABTYPE.
* zone-time.awk: New file.
* tzselect.8: Document new options, and --help and --version while
we're at it.
* tzselect.ksh (ZONETABTYPE): New var.
Implement -t ZONETABTYPE option.
Check that no extra operands are given.
* zone.tab: Change first comment line, to distinguish the two
tables better.
* Makefile (maintainer-clean): Clean *.asc files and *.tar.gz files.
(signatures): Use .asc instead of .sign as the extension for signatures
as this works better with other software. Reported by Phil Pennock.
* .gitignore: Also ignore .asc files.
