On Mon, 23 Oct 2017, Paul Eggert wrote:
On 10/23/2017 01:01 PM, Zefram wrote:
Derick Rethans wrote:
I saw that the PHP build with the new timezone database (2017.3) failed due to Canada/East-Saskatchewan suddenly being gone. What's up with that? As explained in the NEWS file:
Remove Canada/East-Saskatchewan from the 'backward' file, as it exceeded the 14-character limit and was an unused misnomer anyway.
Yes, it looks like php-src/ext/date/lib/timezonedb.h was updated to 2017c without making the corresponding changes to php-src/ext/date/lib/timezonemap.h. The PHP build needs those two files to be consistent with each other.
You're right that timezonemap.h needs updating, but it has nothing to do with Canada/East-Saskatchewan missing and failing the test. It's simply a data point that is now gone.
What program generates those two files, by the way? I'd like to mention it in tz-link.htm.
It's part of https://github.com/derickr/timelib, which powers the date/timezone support for PHP, HHVM and MongoDB. Typically you run "make clean && make cheers, Derick -- https://derickrethans.nl | https://xdebug.org | https://dram.io Like Xdebug? Consider a donation: https://xdebug.org/donate.php twitter: @derickr and @xdebug