[DRE-maint] Bug#503591: Bug #503591: Please don't include yet another copy of tzdata in the archive

[shawn]

severity 503591 serious
stop

>I am downgrading the severity of this bug because embedding time zone
>data is not as severe as code duplication.

even if this data changes quite often, and is critical for accurate
calculations in many fields?
tzdata has to be changed quite often in stable releases, due to
legislation that changes
definitions of timezones, etc.

The recent leap second bug should be a warning that keeping time keeping
right is critical
and that having it duplicated in more than one place is a major pain.

this has languished an entire release and I believe it at least needs a
justification on why it
has not been fixed yet.
-- 
-Shawn Landden