tzcode update to 2008e

[Peter Wemm]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Edwin Groothuis <edwin at freebsd.org> wrote:
> Currently the tzcode in the FreeBSD operating system is from 2004.
> I have updated, on my development machine at home, src/lib/libc/stdtime
> and src/usr.sbin/zic to tzcode version 2008e. It still works.
>
> zic compiles the zonefiles into version 2 format, zdump properly
> shows the data. The strftime() tests with the date regression tests
> (bin/127514: [patch] regression tests for date(1)) work fine.
>
> The patch can be found at
> http://www.mavetju.org/~edwin/tzcode2008e-update.txt, it is against
> current. The MFCs for 7.x and 6.x should be relatively simple.
>
> I have done it on i386, so I'm happy to hear how other architectures
> are going with it. And then, euhm... yeah, what's next?
>
> Edwin

What happens when you run old static linked binaries?  Will they
understand 'version 2 format' zone files?

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