[tz] iana build failures on Windows

[Paul Eggert]

On 4/22/21 11:22 PM, Manuela Friedrich wrote:

> please find the tracing output attached.

Thanks. Here's the first line that differs between your output (-) and 
mine (+):

-TRACING: lotm_ok=1 tm_ok=1 only_ok=0 lot=-1830384001 t=-1830383664 
tm={1911-364T23:49:28 dst=0} lotm={1911-364T23:43:51 dst=0} delta=337 
t-lot=337
+TRACING: lotm_ok=1 tm_ok=1 only_ok=0 lot=-1830383326 t=-1830382989 
tm={1912-000T00:16:51 dst=0} lotm={1911-364T23:55:06 dst=0} delta=1305 
t-lot=337

This difference suggests that for TZ=Africa/Abidjan and the timestamp 
-1830383495, tzdb's localtime behaves differently on your platform than 
on mine, although the two platforms agree on -1830384001 and on 
-1830382989 (the point of disagreement is halfway between the two points 
of agreement). localtime should convert this timestamp to 1911-12-31 
23:52:17 -00:16:08 LMT (with no DST), but evidently it converts to 
something else on your platform.

I see three things that could have gone wrong. First, while looking into 
this I noticed that relevant parts of zic.c and localtime.c rely on 
implementation-defined behavior when shifting or converting negative 
integers. Although I doubt that's your problem please try the latest 
GitHub tzdb development version, which has these fixes I installed today:

https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-April/030025.html
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/tz/2021-April/030024.html

Second, the TZif file for Africa/Abidjan could be incorrect on your 
platform, which would mean a portability bug in zic.c. I'm attaching my 
Abidjan file (it's binary data) along with Abidjan-od-t-x1.txt, the 
output of the shell command 'od -t x1 Africa/Abidjan' (it's a textual 
representation of that data). Please compare this to your Abidjan file, 
making sure that it's the actual Abidjan file you're using (you perhaps 
have multiple near-copies of that file on your system by now...).

Third, there could be a problem in tzdb's localtime code. To test this, 
please apply the attached patch zdump-2.diff to otherwise-unmodified 
source code and then run 'zdump Africa/Abidjan' (without the '-v'). The 
output I get is also attached as zdump-2.txt; what output do you get?
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Africa/Abidjan  
t=-1830383495 sp->ats[0]=-1830383032 sp->timecnt=1
sp->ats[sp->timecnt-1]=-1830383032 sp->goback=0 sp->goahead=0
i=sp->defaulttype=0
ttisp->tt_utoff=-968
 localsub={1911-365 1911-12-31 23:52:17 dst=0}
Sun Dec 31 23:52:17 1911 LMT