Re: CLDR 1.6 and DateTime::Locale 0.4001

[email protected] (Dave Rolsky)
Newsgroups perl.datetime
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Sun, 6 Jul 2008, Jim Monty wrote:

> CLDR 1.6 was released on 2008-07-02:
>
>    http://unicode.org/cldr/version/1.6.html
>
> The current version of DateTime::Locale, version 0.4001, is based on
> CLDR 1.5.1 (2007-12-21). I've noted in the past that Dave Rolsky keeps
> DateTime::TimeZone remarkably and admirably up-to-date with the
> periodic changes to the Olson database...
>
>    http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=593468
>    http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=593670
>    http://www.perlmonks.com/?node_id=596025
>
> ...and so I naturally wonder if he's on the CLDR mailing list
> [email protected] and intends to be as vigilant and fastidious
> about keeping DateTime::Locale similarly up-to-date. :-)

I'm not on the list so I appreciate the update.

Right now I'm in Taiwan sort of on vacation so it may take a little while.

> Happily for indefatigable Dave, the CLDR is updated much less
> frequently than the Olson database is.

But when they do update the CLDR they often change stuff or add new data 
we want, so it's way more work to deal with.

To make everything more fun the latest Olson update is breaking my parsing 
script, so I'll have to look into that as well, but probably nothing will 
happen til next week.


-dave

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