Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 22:32:16 -0700 From: "Peter Wemm" <peter@wemm.org> To: "Edwin Groothuis" <edwin@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: tzcode update to 2008e Message-ID: <e7db6d980809212232g7063c3ffp771a8f8554b7ae8b@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20080921092704.GC83347@k7.mavetju> References: <20080921092704.GC83347@k7.mavetju>
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On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Edwin Groothuis <edwin@freebsd.org> 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
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