On 12/29/24 08:29, Bruno Haible wrote:
Re 1 + max: yes that makes sense, also for compensating a conversion
to entire seconds, that loses fractional seconds.
In TZDB releases all the files either correspond to a commit and
therefore lack fractional seconds (because Git doesn't record fractional
seconds in commits), or correspond to a (1 + max(other file timestamps))
and thus also lack fractional seconds.
That is why TZDB can get away with tar --format=pax: since there are no
fractional seconds, GNU Tar doesn't use that Pax extension to ustar
format and so the distributed tarball is actually --format=ustar until
the year 2242.
I see your rules in tz/Makefile, target 'set-timestamps.out'. This rule uses
"git diff --quiet $$file". Shouldn't it use "git diff --quiet HEAD $$file"
instead?
Thanks, I fixed that.
