From: Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Pending patches/issues before 0.9.15 release?
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 14:44:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131121194459.GS24286@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <528E5EB9.1080400@skarnet.org>
On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 07:27:53PM +0000, Laurent Bercot wrote:
> >I'm not familiar with the "right/" timezones and they're difficult to
> >google for -- please give me a reference for what they are, if you
> >can. However, musl only uses zoneinfo for timezone/daylight-time
> >purposes, not for any sort of adjustment between POSIX/calendar time
> >and UTC(w/leap-seconds) and/or TAI. Perhaps this is the source of the
> >discrepency.
>
> The short version of what right/ timezones are is explained here:
> http://www.madore.org/~david/computers/unix-leap-seconds.html#tai-minus-10
Thanks for the info.
> The difference between glibc and musl is 25 seconds, not 35 as I wrote,
> which seems to indicate that musl's gmtime()/localtime() does not take leap
> second tables, which are defined in right/ timezones, into account.
> I would really love that to be fixed - maybe not for 0.9.15, but for 0.9.16
> if possible, because I'm a hardcore TAI-10 user.
I'm a pretty hardcore anti-leapseconds / pro-POSIX-seconds guy, so if
you'd like to make any progress here, maybe you could do some research
into whether/how the features you want could be supported
non-invasively.
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-21 19:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-21 1:30 Rich Felker
2013-11-21 9:40 ` Laurent Bercot
2013-11-21 16:39 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-21 16:55 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-11-21 19:27 ` Laurent Bercot
2013-11-21 19:44 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2013-11-21 20:07 ` Daniel Cegiełka
2013-11-21 20:34 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-21 22:54 ` Laurent Bercot
2013-11-24 11:06 ` zoneinfo file parsing in __tz.c Laurent Bercot
2013-11-24 12:22 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-11-21 22:54 ` Pending patches/issues before 0.9.15 release? Szabolcs Nagy
2013-11-21 23:04 ` Laurent Bercot
2013-11-22 0:18 ` Szabolcs Nagy
2013-11-21 23:05 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-21 19:21 ` John Spencer
2013-11-23 22:02 ` Rich Felker
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