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Re: Patched Asia/Jerusalem timezone
- To: "Tzafrir Cohen" <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Subject: Re: Patched Asia/Jerusalem timezone
- From: "Ehud Karni" <ehud(at-nospam)unix.simonwiesel.co.il>
- Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 19:50:39 +0200
- CC: Eran Levy <eranle(at-nospam)netvision.net.il>, penzin(at-nospam)attglobal.net, linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
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- In-reply-to: <Pine.LNX.4.33L2.0110021741500.4493-100000@canada1.technion.ac.il>(message from Tzafrir Cohen on Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:43:19 +0200 (IST))
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On Tue, 2 Oct 2001 17:43:19 +0200 (IST), Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@technion.ac.il> wrote:
>
> > Patched timezone file for Aisia/Jerusalem follows.
>
> Does this format differ between seperate libc version?
>
> Can I use a timezone file compiled with one libc for another libc?
>From the tzfile(5) man page:
The time zone information files used by tzset(3) begin with the
magic characters "TZif" to identify then as time zone information
files, followed by sixteen bytes reserved for future use, followed
by six four-byte values of type long, written in a ``standard''
byte order (the high-order byte of the value is written first).
So, you see, the `zic' compiled file is portable file among any POSIX
system and NOT depended on libc/glibc. In my experience I moved it
from DG/UX (big and little endian) to SGI, Linux and even Cygwin
without any problems.
Ehud.
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