zdump on 64bit architectures being worked on?

Stuart Bishop stuart at stuartbishop.net
Sat Oct 11 08:27:54 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Stuart Bishop <stuart at stuartbishop.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]
> <olsona at dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
>> As far as I know, zdump is working on 64-bit systems. Do note that time_t structures typically contain "year" elements that are less than 64 bits wide; when this is the case, very very negative and very very positive time_t values are associated with years that can't be represented using time_t's; this is why zdump shows "NULL" for these values.

Looking further, I'm getting particularly nonsensical output for some
timezones. It doesn't seem that useful, even if it is the expected
output:

$ zdump -v EST
EST  -9223372036854775808 = NULL
EST  -9223372036854689408 = NULL
EST  9223372036854689407 = NULL
EST  9223372036854775807 = NULL


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