On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:05 +1000, Edwin Groothuis <edwin_at_freebsd.org> wrote: >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] >> >> what new is there? what will it improve? >> >> 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 :-)
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