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[Bug libc/11620] Bad design of timezone conversions
- From: "schwab at linux-m68k dot org" <sourceware-bugzilla at sourceware dot org>
- To: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 00:46:36 +0000
- Subject: [Bug libc/11620] Bad design of timezone conversions
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- References: <bug-11620-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11620
--- Comment #5 from Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> 2012-11-09 00:46:36 UTC ---
> Yet, glibc does provide a reverse of it, timegm(),
Only because it was prior art as part of the Olsen implementation.
> I looked at the sources of glibc today and it looks like __tzfile_read() loads
> an entire Olson database into memory.
No, it doesn't. It loads a single time zone file.
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