Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:44:18 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org> Cc: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update of tzcode from 2004a to 2009e Message-ID: <874ov9e7al.fsf@kobe.laptop> In-Reply-To: <20090522005304.GA10028@mavetju.org> (Edwin Groothuis's message of "Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:05 %2B1000") References: <20090521204607.GA34381@mavetju.org> <20090521211013.GA76374@freebsd.org> <20090522005304.GA10028@mavetju.org>
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--=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:05 +1000, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org> wro= te: >On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote: >>On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:46:07AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote: >>> Please be informed that I will commit an update to the tzcode >>> related code (zic, zdump, stdtime of libc) in the coming days. Last >>> year[1] >>=20 >> what new is there? what will it improve? >>=20 >> just curious > > The original issue why I dived into it was because zdump on the 64 bit > platforms didn't work properly. Pretty lame reason I admit, but that's > how all big things start :-) > > The new code and format of the output of zic adds support for 64 bit > time_t while staying compatible with applications which don't support > it. Plus general fixes. Plus tons of bug fixes, cause by better overflow handling in the updated tzcode snapshot. Edwin, thank you for keeping up with all the tzcode updates :-) --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.11 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkoahJMACgkQ1g+UGjGGA7ZeygCeOtlK0/nNxjbYKtvKMR4o0v30 ZiMAmgIUS1aSHq1Oj1kt8df4aySt8kdP =ak04 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--
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