From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon May 25 16:21:53 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D17D0106564A for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr [150.140.141.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 453008FC48 for ; Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr (unknown [10.1.0.143]) by poseidon.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44FD8EB5962; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32DC5450C6; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:52 +0300 (EEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ceid.upatras.gr Received: from mail.ceid.upatras.gr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (europa.ceid.upatras.gr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id FXxy8WemE9tb; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (ppp-94-64-237-177.home.otenet.gr [94.64.237.177]) by mail.ceid.upatras.gr (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD552450ED; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:51 +0300 (EEST) Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n4PGLpCJ002358; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n4PGLnHo002357; Mon, 25 May 2009 19:21:49 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Edwin Groothuis In-Reply-To: <20090522005304.GA10028@mavetju.org> (Edwin Groothuis's message of "Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:05 +1000") Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 14:44:18 +0300 Message-ID: <874ov9e7al.fsf@kobe.laptop> References: <20090521204607.GA34381@mavetju.org> <20090521211013.GA76374@freebsd.org> <20090522005304.GA10028@mavetju.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.94 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Cc: Roman Divacky , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Update of tzcode from 2004a to 2009e X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 16:21:54 -0000 --=-=-= Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:05 +1000, Edwin Groothuis 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----- --=-=-=--