[tz] A Partly-Baked Idea

[Tom Lane]

Bill Seymour via tz <tz at iana.org> writes:
> Could there be a "Version 4" of the compiled TZif files in which the ints
> and time_ts have the correct endianness for the platform on which they're
> installed?

This'd break the fairly widespread habit of installing the files under
/usr/share (which is supposed to contain only architecture-independent
files).  I think you'd need a *very* convincing performance argument
to support changing that.

			regards, tom lane