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Currently we install just zone.tab, but it says: ``` # This file is intended as a backward-compatibility aid for older programs. # New programs should use zone1970.tab. This file is like zone1970.tab (see # zone1970.tab's comments), but with the following additional restrictions: # # 1. This file contains only ASCII characters. # 2. The first data column contains exactly one country code. # # Because of (2), each row stands for an area that is the intersection # of a region identified by a country code and of a timezone where civil # clocks have agreed since 1970; this is a narrower definition than # that of zone1970.tab. ``` I understand that zone.tab is still used by eg tzsetup and that's why it's installed (eventually I guess that such tools should change considering messages like [1]), but is there some reason not to install both, for other software that wants to use the newer file now? [1] http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021760.html

Currently we install just zone.tab, but it says: ``` # This file is intended as a backward-compatibility aid for older programs. # New programs should use zone1970.tab. This file is like zone1970.tab (see # zone1970.tab's comments), but with the following additional restrictions: # # 1. This file contains only ASCII characters. # 2. The first data column contains exactly one country code. # # Because of (2), each row stands for an area that is the intersection # of a region identified by a country code and of a timezone where civil # clocks have agreed since 1970; this is a narrower definition than # that of zone1970.tab. ``` Considering messages like [1] I suppose we should install zone1970.tab too for other software that wants to use it, and then we might as well use it for tzsetup(8) too. [1] http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021760.html

Currently we install just zone.tab, but it says: ``` # This file is intended as a backward-compatibility aid for older programs. # New programs should use zone1970.tab. This file is like zone1970.tab (see # zone1970.tab's comments), but with the following additional restrictions: # # 1. This file contains only ASCII characters. # 2. The first data column contains exactly one country code. # # Because of (2), each row stands for an area that is the intersection # of a region identified by a country code and of a timezone where civil # clocks have agreed since 1970; this is a narrower definition than # that of zone1970.tab. ``` I understand that zone.tab is still used by eg tzsetup and that's why it's installed (eventually I guess that such tools should change considering messages like [1]), but is there some reason not to install bothConsidering messages like [1] I suppose we should install zone1970.tab too for other software that wants to use it, for other software that wants toand then we might as well use the newer file now?it for tzsetup(8) too. [1] http://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2014-October/021760.html