Re: [tz] tzfiles contain Unix epoch for the first transition time

Paul Eggert wrote:

The second, at file offset 1356, is for -2717650800 (0xffffffff5e03f090), which is 1883-11-18 17:00:00 UTC.

Sorry, I misinterpreted that one. The second one is actually for -2717647200 (0xffffffff5e03fea0), which is 1883-11-18 18:00:00 UTC, and this agrees with your program. So the problem is only with the first transition; the second one looks OK.