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
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 > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
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 >> ______________________________________________ >> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595 >-- Brian D. Ripley, ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk Professor of Applied Statistics, http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ University of Oxford, Tel: +44 1865 272861 (self) 1 South Parks Road, +44 1865 272866 (PA) Oxford OX1 3TG, UK Fax: +44 1865 272595
And an article with some extra information on it: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/story/2011-10-16/time-zone-database-ICANN/50793890/1 On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 12:12 PM, Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote:> 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 >>> ______________________________________________ >>> R-devel at r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk >> Professor of Applied Statistics, ?http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ >> University of Oxford, ? ? ? ? ? ? Tel: ?+44 1865 272861 (self) >> 1 South Parks Road, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? +44 1865 272866 (PA) >> Oxford OX1 3TG, UK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Fax: ?+44 1865 272595 >> > > -- > Brian D. Ripley, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk > Professor of Applied Statistics, ?http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/~ripley/ > University of Oxford, ? ? ? ? ? ? Tel: ?+44 1865 272861 (self) > 1 South Parks Road, ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? +44 1865 272866 (PA) > Oxford OX1 3TG, UK ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?Fax: ?+44 1865 272595 > > ______________________________________________ > R-devel at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >-- Joris Meys Statistical consultant Ghent University Faculty of Bioscience Engineering Department of Mathematical Modelling, Statistics and Bio-Informatics tel : +32 9 264 59 87 Joris.Meys at Ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php