Re: right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-11-07 Thread Todd C . Miller
On Thu, 07 Nov 2019 15:38:04 +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Now I've gone through mkr, here's the diff. > > base66 goes from 8100->6870 inodes as it avoids the duplicated copy > of the standard files, as well as the leap-seconds files. Fine with me. - todd

Re: right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-11-07 Thread Theo de Raadt
Fine with me. Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2019/10/26 15:32, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > > > The fundamental problem with the "right" files is that the time_t > > values end up being different from their POSIX values for the same UTC > > time. So whenever these are stored and compared between sys

Re: right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-11-07 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2019/10/26 15:32, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > The fundamental problem with the "right" files is that the time_t > values end up being different from their POSIX values for the same UTC > time. So whenever these are stored and compared between systems (or > environments that set the TZ environment

Re: right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-10-26 Thread Nick Holland
On 2019-10-26 09:32, Mark Kettenis wrote: >> From: "Todd C. Miller" >> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 06:55:02 -0600 >> >> On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:15:33 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: >> >> > The way these files are supposed to work is that you set the system >> > clock to the time with leap-seconds incl

Re: right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-10-26 Thread Mark Kettenis
> From: "Todd C. Miller" > Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2019 06:55:02 -0600 > > On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:15:33 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > > > The way these files are supposed to work is that you set the system > > clock to the time with leap-seconds included (UTC+leap, or TAI-10) and > > copy the entir

Re: right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-10-26 Thread Todd C . Miller
On Sat, 26 Oct 2019 12:15:33 +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote: > The way these files are supposed to work is that you set the system > clock to the time with leap-seconds included (UTC+leap, or TAI-10) and > copy the entire "right" set of files to the main zoneinfo directory > (upstream provides them

right/ tzdata files (was ports@ Re: (Mozilla) Thunderbird time zone issue)

2019-10-26 Thread Stuart Henderson
Moving to tech: On 2019/10/25 23:45, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Nick Holland: > > > I live in EST5EDT. (actually, I normally use > >/usr/share/zoneinfo/right/US/Michigan ) > ^ > I suspect this to be the trigger for your problem. You have put > yourself into