From 5ab4a796dc743b65021502f71055e77aeff5db28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Parenti <tim@timtimeonline.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:29:49 -0400
Subject: Update iana.org URLs

* CONTRIBUTING, README: Prefer to link to IANA-rendered versions of
informational pages such as theory.html and tz-link.html.
* tz-link.html: Prefer data.iana.org for distribution URLs.
* NEWS: Mention this.
---
 CONTRIBUTING | 2 +-
 NEWS         | 5 +++++
 README       | 2 +-
 tz-link.html | 6 +++---
 4 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index c5fa803..5e0737d 100644
--- a/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ To email small changes, please run a POSIX shell command like
 For more-elaborate or possibly controversial changes,
 such as renaming, adding or removing zones, please read
 “Theory and pragmatics of the tz code and data”
-<https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/theory.html>.
+<https://www.iana.org/time-zones/theory>.
 It is also good to browse the mailing list archives
 <https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/tz@iana.org/>
 for examples of patches that tend to work well.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 643977d..cca5832 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -52,6 +52,11 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
     zic now ports to systems that report lack of link support via
     EINVAL, ENOSYS or EPERM errno values. (Thanks to Tom Lane.)
 
+  Changes to documentation
+
+    URLs for release tarballs in tz-link.html have been updated to
+    reflect their new canonical URLs on data.iana.org.
+
 
 Release 2026c - 2026-07-08 10:23:58 -0700
 
diff --git a/README b/README
index f22ec54..bb7d791 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ locations around the globe.  It is updated periodically to reflect
 changes made by political bodies to time zone boundaries, UTC offsets,
 and daylight-saving rules.
 
-See <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tz-link.html> or the
+See <https://www.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link> or the
 file tz-link.html for how to acquire the code and data.
 
 Once acquired, read the leading comments in the file ‘Makefile’
diff --git a/tz-link.html b/tz-link.html
index 818e09a..b661678 100644
--- a/tz-link.html
+++ b/tz-link.html
@@ -146,15 +146,15 @@ the latest release’s two
 to a <abbr>GNU</abbr>/Linux or similar host.</p>
 <pre><code>mkdir tzdb
 cd tzdb
-<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a> https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzcode-latest.tar.gz
-wget https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
+<a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/">wget</a> https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzcode-latest.tar.gz
+wget https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdata-latest.tar.gz
 <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/">gzip</a> -dc tzcode-latest.tar.gz | <a href="https://www.gnu.org/software/tar/">tar</a> -xf -
 gzip -dc tzdata-latest.tar.gz | tar -xf -
 </code></pre>
 <p>Alternatively, the following shell commands download the same
 release in a single-tarball format containing extra data
 useful for regression testing:</p>
-<pre><code>wget <a href="https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz">https://www.iana.org/time-zones/repository/tzdb-latest.tar.lz</a>
+<pre><code>wget <a href="https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-latest.tar.lz">https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tzdb-latest.tar.lz</a>
 <a href="https://www.nongnu.org/lzip/">lzip</a> -dc tzdb-latest.tar.lz | tar -xf -
 </code></pre>
 <p>These commands use convenience links to the latest release
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