From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 22 05:32:17 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 926891065672 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 591368FC17 for ; Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:32:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peter@wemm.org) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id c8so176993wra.27 for ; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.143.12 with SMTP id q12mr2501504and.24.1222061536344; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.100.154.11 with HTTP; Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:16 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:16 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" To: "Edwin Groothuis" In-Reply-To: <20080921092704.GC83347@k7.mavetju> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20080921092704.GC83347@k7.mavetju> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzcode update to 2008e X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 05:32:17 -0000 On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Edwin Groothuis wrote: > Currently the tzcode in the FreeBSD operating system is from 2004. > I have updated, on my development machine at home, src/lib/libc/stdtime > and src/usr.sbin/zic to tzcode version 2008e. It still works. > > zic compiles the zonefiles into version 2 format, zdump properly > shows the data. The strftime() tests with the date regression tests > (bin/127514: [patch] regression tests for date(1)) work fine. > > The patch can be found at > http://www.mavetju.org/~edwin/tzcode2008e-update.txt, it is against > current. The MFCs for 7.x and 6.x should be relatively simple. > > I have done it on i386, so I'm happy to hear how other architectures > are going with it. And then, euhm... yeah, what's next? > > Edwin What happens when you run old static linked binaries? Will they understand 'version 2 format' zone files? -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution." -- Robert Sewell