[tz] Ubuntu drops old-style links

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Mar 22 10:02, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 2024-03-21 03:36, Corinna Vinschen via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> > We're generating the conversion from Windows to POSIX timezone via
> > the conversion table from unicode.org:
> > 
> > https://cygwin.com/cgit/newlib-cygwin/tree/winsup/utils/tzmap-from-unicode.org
> > 
> > Plus a few (7, actually) mappings the Unicode consortium missed in
> > the list (or maybe they are available in the meantime, needs checking).
> > This is the minimum list of timezone info we need in the tzdata DB.
> 
> I generated tzmap.h and generated differences since the last update cldr ~40.
> I also searched in the latest for matches for each field attached as first.
> 
> I do not know if they will be of help as I see you have already looked at tzmap.
> 
> It looks as if the match might better prioritize country code over Windows label.

Which match?  I'm not sure what you're trying to tell me.

Basically, we want to generate a POSIX timezone from the current user's
Windows timezone.  This boils down to four questions:

- Is the creation of tzmap.h from unicode.org via the
  tzmap-from-unicode.org script the right thing to do or not?

- If it's the wrong thing to do, what other source do you propose and do
  you have a script to perform the conversion from this source to a
  valid tzmap.h file?

- Otherwise, is the current tzmap-from-unicode.org right or wrong in
  adding these old extra timezone/territory settings, or is even
  some combination missing?

- If so, would you mind to send a patch to fix tzmap-from-unicode.org
  accordingly?


Corinna