Update of tzcode from 2004a to 2009e

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On Fri, 22 May 2009 10:53:05 +1000, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
>On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:10:14PM +0200, Roman Divacky wrote:
>>On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 06:46:07AM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
>>> Please be informed that I will commit an update to the tzcode
>>> related code (zic, zdump, stdtime of libc) in the coming days. Last
>>> year[1]
>> 
>> what new is there? what will it improve?
>> 
>> just curious
>
> The original issue why I dived into it was because zdump on the 64 bit
> platforms didn't work properly. Pretty lame reason I admit, but that's
> how all big things start :-)
>
> The new code and format of the output of zic adds support for 64 bit
> time_t while staying compatible with applications which don't support
> it. Plus general fixes.

Plus tons of bug fixes, cause by better overflow handling in the updated
tzcode snapshot.

Edwin, thank you for keeping up with all the tzcode updates :-)

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