Aug. 20, 2020
8:37 p.m.
On 8/20/20 12:33 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
They often have bigger issues with space for decoding, data storage, and use; one suggestion was a stream compressed list of file base names and POSIX strings from the last line of the files e.g.
The main argument for POSIX strings is simplicity rather than saving storage or network capacity or even CPU time. Currently all the tzdb data can be compressed to 22,418 bytes, via 'lzip -9 tzdata.zi'. Although limiting tzdata to (compressed) names and POSIX strings would shrink that considerably, I doubt whether the data shrinkage is worth it, except perhaps for embedded applications where all timestamps are future timestamps.