On 2026-08-21 11:33, Tim Parenti via tz wrote:
0004 updates our documentation to prefer ... new IANA-rendered versions of
informational pages
such as theory.html and tz-link.html.
The rest of that patch looks fine but unfortunately the IANA-rendered versions
have some issues, e.g., with viewports. I corresponded with Tim about this and
for now let's go back to the original informational pages; I installed the
attached, which substitutes data.iana.org URLs to avoid the redirects in URLs
we used before last week. I also wrote to IANA about fixing the IANA renderings.
From d4e181287fc9e53ae1b4c6db99464079c1428130 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Paul Eggert <[email protected]>
Date: Sun, 23 Aug 2026 15:51:57 -0700
Subject: [PROPOSED] Cite original rather than transformed HTML
* CONTRIBUTING, README: Cite the original TZDB pages rather than
their transformed versions, as the latter have accessibility
and other issues, e.g., viewport and color mishandling.
---
CONTRIBUTING | 2 +-
README | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/CONTRIBUTING b/CONTRIBUTING
index 5e0737dc..213ae67e 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/theory>.
+<https://data.iana.org/time-zones/theory.html>
It is also good to browse the mailing list archives
<https://lists.iana.org/hyperkitty/list/[email protected]/>
for examples of patches that tend to work well.
diff --git a/README b/README
index bb7d791d..0b69d8ea 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/tz-link> or the
+See <https://data.iana.org/time-zones/tz-link.html> or the
file tz-link.html for how to acquire the code and data.
Once acquired, read the leading comments in the file ‘Makefile’
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2.53.0
