Nov. 4, 2011
4:23 p.m.
On 2011/11/04 02:36 PM, Zefram wrote:
Thom Hehl wrote:
I'm assuming that "Standard byte order" referred to over and over in the docs means Most Significant Byte first? ... It should really be documented that way.
It is, and it is. From the first paragraph of description in tzfile(5):
... written in a ``standard'' byte order (the high-order byte of the value is written first).
-zefram
Okay, the high-order byte is written first, but it doesn't say anything about the ordering of the remaining bytes of the four- or eight-byte values. (PDP-endian, anybody?) ;-) -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Tel: +44 (0)161 477 1898 FAX: +44 (0)161 718 3587 )=-