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 <rip...@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@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel >>> >> >> -- >> Brian D. Ripley, rip...@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, rip...@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@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.m...@ugent.be ------------------------------- Disclaimer : http://helpdesk.ugent.be/e-maildisclaimer.php ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel