[tz] zic changes (2/2)

Paul Eggert eggert at cs.ucla.edu
Thu May 1 23:38:51 UTC 2014


Thanks for fixing that.  I installed those patches into the experimental 
github repository, along with the attached news item for this.
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From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Thu, 1 May 2014 16:36:16 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] * NEWS: Document zic change for low-valued time stamps.

---
 NEWS | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 1ef2764..2c289f5 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -5,6 +5,9 @@ Unreleased, experimental changes
 
   Changes affecting code
 
+    zic now generates transitions for minimum time values, eliminating guesswork
+    when handling low-valued time stamps.  (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
+
     Port to Cygwin sans glibc.  (Thanks to Arthur David Olson.)
 
   Changes affecting commentary and documentation
-- 
1.9.1


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