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Re: US Daylight Savings Time Changes
Joe Buck writes:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:49:56AM -0500, David Edelsohn wrote:
> > >>>>> Tom Tromey writes:
> >
> > Tom> David probably knows this, but for others, Jakub and Andrew put in a
> > Tom> patch for this today. I think it is only on trunk, not any other
> > Tom> branches.
> >
> > Should this be included in GCC 4.1.2?
>
> I think so. I'm glad someone raised the issue.
>
> For GNU/Linux and BSD-based systems, languages other than Java use
> data files for time zone changes, so you'd need to check if your
> tzdata package is new enough (use Google to find out how). I'm
> surprised to learn that Java does it a different way. Are we
> really shipping time zone information in gcc? Doesn't it change
> every month or so (when considering the 180 or so countries in the
> world)?
We are looking carefully at the best way to solve this for Java, but
it's hard.
Andrew.