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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>, bug-gnulib@gnu.org
Subject: Re: localtime on native Windows
Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2024 18:02:15 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <62badb92-dc1a-4935-89fc-5bf1ba32b811@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7117573.dE46n4Xy2H@nimes>

On 2024-02-11 04:46, Bruno Haible wrote:
> The first question is how to include tzdata in gnulib.
>    - AFAICS, the main data file (without comments) is tzdata.zi and is about
>      100 KB large. It can be upgraded simply by copying the newest tzdata.zi
>      from a newer tzdata distribution. Including such a file in gnulib would
>      be OK (re copyright, number of files, total size), right?

No problem with copyright; the file is in the public domain.

>   - Whereas including all files from /usr/share/zoneinfo is probably not
>     acceptable (> 1300 files, ca. 6 MB total size).

That can be automatically generated from tzdata.zi, by using zic, the 
source code of which is also in the public domain. This is common in 
GNU/Linux systems. If memory serves Android uses another approach: a 
single binary file indexed by timezone name.


  reply	other threads:[~2024-02-13  2:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-02-09 17:43 MT-unsafe time modules Bruno Haible
2024-02-09 20:22 ` Bruno Haible
2024-02-10 11:10 ` Bruno Haible
2024-02-11 12:46   ` localtime on native Windows Bruno Haible
2024-02-13  2:02     ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2024-02-18  2:38       ` Bruno Haible
2024-02-18  4:50         ` Paul Eggert
2024-02-18 14:38           ` Bruno Haible
2024-02-18 19:05             ` Paul Eggert
2024-02-11 10:43 ` MT-unsafe time modules Bruno Haible
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2024-02-13 18:25 localtime on native Windows Brian Inglis
2024-02-18  2:14 ` Bruno Haible
2024-02-18  5:32   ` Brian.Inglis

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