Date: Sun, 16 Apr 2000 10:25:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: timezone files: the solution
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On Fri, 14 Apr 2000 pavenis AT lanet DOT lv wrote:

> I'm getting broken djtzn203.zip also when building it under Linux (on 
> ix86 of course)

x86 is not the issue here (the timezone files are
endian-independent).  The question is: how does Linux define time_t?
If it's a signed type, you will see the same problems as on Irix,
because the timezone files are generated by zic compiled for the host,
so it uses host's time_t.

(AFAIK, most libraries have a signed time_t; our implementation is
an exception rather than the rule.)

> With new djtzn203.zip downloaded from ftp.cdrom.com:
> 
> C:\DJGPP\TEST\tz>tztest
> Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:57:58 +10800
> Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:57:58 EEST
> 
> C:\DJGPP\TEST\tz>set TZ=c:/djgpp/zoneinfo/Europe/Riga
> 
> C:\DJGPP\TEST\tz>tztest
> Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:58:05 +7200
> Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:58:05 EET
> 
> Which seems to be Ok.

Thanks for testing.