From ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk  Fri Oct 28 12:12:57 2011
From: ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk (Prof Brian Ripley)
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:12:57 +0100 (BST)
Subject: [Rd] tzone DB lawsuit Implications for R-project?
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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
>> ______________________________________________
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>> 
>
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> 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)
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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



[Rd] tzone DB lawsuit Implications for R-project?
Prof Brian Ripley