[tz] "Standard byte order"

Zefram zefram at fysh.org
Fri Nov 4 14:36:10 UTC 2011


Thom Hehl wrote:
>I'm assuming that "Standard byte order" referred to over and over in the
>docs means Most Significant Byte first?
...
>It should really be documented that way.

It is, and it is.  From the first paragraph of description in tzfile(5):

	... written in a ``standard'' byte order (the high-order byte
	of the value is written first).

-zefram



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