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From: "schwab@linux-m68k.org" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs@sources.redhat.com
Subject: [Bug libc/11620] Bad design of timezone conversions
Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-11620-131-F1uEXomfi8@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-11620-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11620

--- Comment #5 from Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> 2012-11-09 00:46:36 UTC ---
> Yet, glibc does provide a reverse of it, timegm(),

Only because it was prior art as part of the Olsen implementation.

> I looked at the sources of glibc today and it looks like __tzfile_read() loads
> an entire Olson database into memory.

No, it doesn't.  It loads a single time zone file.

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-11-09  0:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <bug-11620-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
2012-11-08 11:21 ` maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com
2012-11-08 23:57 ` maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com
2012-11-09  0:23 ` maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com
2012-11-09  0:46 ` schwab@linux-m68k.org [this message]
2012-11-09 10:34 ` maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com
2013-09-20 11:01 ` david at lang dot hm
2014-06-30 18:03 ` fweimer at redhat dot com
2014-11-25 10:26 ` maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com
2015-08-27 22:04 ` [Bug time/11620] " jsm28 at gcc dot gnu.org
2010-05-22  7:57 [Bug libc/11620] New: " hadmut at danisch dot de
2010-05-22 13:49 ` [Bug libc/11620] " drepper at redhat dot com

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