<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>The patch worked for me, I did "patch < patch.txt" against tzcode2007h and fed it each filename in sequence. Compiled fine as well.</div><div><br></div><div>The patch did look a bit strange, as to the filename format.</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div>-s</div><br><div><div>On 09 Nov 2007, at 20:51, Jonathan Leffler wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Nov 8, 2007 6:26 AM, Arthur David Olson <<a href="mailto:olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov">olsona@elsie.nci.nih.gov</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Here are proposed changes to eliminate the "P" macro from time zone source<br>(a first step in simplifying the code by assuming C99 compilers).<br><br> --ado</blockquote><div><br>I tried to apply this as a patch and run into two problems. <br><ol><li>The file names are not readily obvious to the patch program; the names it sees are /tmp/geta13002 and /tmp/getb13002 etc, rather than (say) date.c.</li><li>There should be a 2 characters (eg two blanks, or "! " or "+ ") at the start of each line, but by the time Gmail gets the message, there's a blank missing at the start of lines such as the #ifndef lines at the start of the patch below. I also had some unfortunate line-wrapping, but I'm willing to blame that on the (other) email program I use. <br></li><li>I tried manually fixing up the patch file for the line starts, but was not successful.<br></li></ol> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <br>------- date.c -------<br>*** /tmp/geta13002 Thu Nov 8 09:23:34 2007<br>--- /tmp/getb13002 Thu Nov 8 09:23:34 2007<br>***************</blockquote></div></blockquote></div></body></html>