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Re: [Tzdist-bis] [calsify] tzdist and IANA -- estimating the operational parameters

Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Thu, 18 July 2019 20:51 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Tzdist-bis] [calsify] tzdist and IANA -- estimating the operational parameters
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Steve Crocker wrote:
> It doesn’t seem to me the legal verbiage would be part of the regular download, so that would reduce the payload a bit.

Sorry, I shouldn't have distracted the performance discussion by mentioning that 
verbiage. It's so small that eliminating it isn't worth the effort unless one is 
trying to win a compression contest. Here's a complete copy of the verbiage:

# This zic input file is in the public domain.

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