May 20, 1998
2:51 p.m.
"Olson, Arthur David" <OLSONA@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> writes:
2. I'm sure you're aware that BSD and Linux now include your routines.
Wrong. For Linux using glibc we have our own functions.
Unfortunately, they don't make it easy for typical users to regenerate the time-zone files. Users could download new files, but that's a megabyte of data.
Also not true. We distribute the database in glibc and whoever wants to update her/his system manually can use the diffs generated for each new version of glibc. -- Uli ---------------. drepper at gnu.org ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Cygnus Solutions `--' drepper at cygnus.com `------------------------