[tz] "Standard byte order"

[Ian Abbott]

On 2011/11/04 02:36 PM, Zefram wrote:
> 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

Okay, the high-order byte is written first, but it doesn't say anything
about the ordering of the remaining bytes of the four- or eight-byte
values.  (PDP-endian, anybody?) ;-)

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