<<On Thu, 18 May 2017 09:16:03 -0700, Viktor Sergiienko <singalen@gmail.com> said:
I'm developing for a pretty small-sized embedded system, and 2.9M of binaries is a bit too much for us. The system never uses a date before 2007.
I estimate I can slim it down too 500K by cutting down the old data.
If you already have some sort of compression library on this system, you can just store up a compressed copy of the tzdata files and save far more. Results with various compression formats: -rw-r--r-- 1 wollman users 86292 May 18 14:29 foo.cpio.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 wollman users 317317 May 18 14:28 foo.tar.Z -rw-r--r-- 1 wollman users 126190 May 18 14:27 foo.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 wollman users 182065 May 18 14:27 foo.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 wollman users 89776 May 18 14:27 foo.tar.xz -rw-r--r-- 1 wollman users 379700 May 18 14:26 foo.zip ZIP, while the largest, supports random access. -GAWollman