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From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling)
Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiling update
Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:57:28 +0100	[thread overview]
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In-Reply-To: <1484372432.4116122.847401256.51690057@webmail.messagingengine.com>

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Random832 <random832 at fastmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 13, 2017, at 23:41, Nick Downing wrote:
> > I see, no I had not realized that code is still in use, I would have
> > thought it had been replaced by a whole lot of POSIX bloat.
>
> POSIX doesn't even have the timezone files - it 'allows' for
> implementation-defined timezones, but POSIX itself basically only
> defines the System V TZ variable with a few extra bits to specify a
> single set of daylight saving rules, e.g. "EST5EDT,M3.2.0,M11.1.0".

We recently discussed whether we should add a pointer to the Olson code but we 
did not find a website that is expected to exist in 10+ yaers. It is however 
obvious that there is no known current implementation that uses a different 
implementation. So it would be obvious to mention that code in the POSIX 
standard.

Jörg

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  reply	other threads:[~2017-01-14 12:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-13 17:57 Nick Downing
2017-01-13 19:02 ` Steve Simon
2017-01-13 19:53 ` Random832
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2017-01-14  4:41                       ` Nick Downing
2017-01-14  5:40                         ` Random832
2017-01-14 12:57                           ` Joerg Schilling [this message]
2017-01-14  7:17 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-14  8:05   ` Nick Downing

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