[Bug libc/11620] Bad design of timezone conversions

maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org
Fri Nov 9 10:34:00 GMT 2012


http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11620

--- Comment #6 from Maxim Yegorushkin <maxim.yegorushkin at gmail dot com> 2012-11-09 10:34:24 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #5)

> > 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.

I stand corrected. 

Doesn't change the fact that it is capable of loading any timezone file on
demand though.

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