From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: schily@schily.net (Joerg Schilling) Date: Sat, 14 Jan 2017 13:57:28 +0100 Subject: [TUHS] 2.11BSD cross compiling update In-Reply-To: <1484372432.4116122.847401256.51690057@webmail.messagingengine.com> References: <1484337208.3105634.847053496.3432DDEC@webmail.messagingengine.com> <1484372432.4116122.847401256.51690057@webmail.messagingengine.com> Message-ID: <587a2038.oqkelWjKwQ+vhDzO%schily@schily.net> Random832 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 thought it had been replaced by a whole lot of POSIX bloat.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 -- EMail:joerg at schily.net (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin joerg.schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.org/private/ http://sourceforge.net/projects/schilytools/files/