Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eric Sosman Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: the Olson Timezone Database Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2012 23:01:14 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:01:16 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="HSlJAUb3pGXi3i7ZL/HoAw"; logging-data="24709"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18cgpkhdhT2eTL48b9958yO" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120208 Thunderbird/10.0.1 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:W+kovFt92vRcCZd3sN7F4l1XQg4= Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:12019 On 2/14/2012 9:28 PM, Roedy Green wrote: > The Olson timezone database is no more. An astrology company, > Astrolabe, sued him, and he did not have the resources to fight back. ... as reported in "The Register" -- four months and one week ago. In other news, rebels against the Crown are causing minor disturbances in some of the North American colonies. > So for now, nobody is keeping track of timezone changes. Java uses > that database. > > A hope Anonymous soon gets round to putting these unprintables out of > business. You call for acts of vandalism, not only in this newsgroup but also on your web site? IANAL, but ISTM that "incitement to offend" is itself an offense/offence in some jurisdictions. And even if it's not actually illegal, it is immoral and despicable to summon hoodlums to enforce your own ideas of Right. Vigilantism is not justice. I hope you will post a retraction here, and remove the "Burn their houses down" message from your site. -- Eric Sosman esosman@ieee-dot-org.invalid