From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,d0dae77abc8c35bd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-11-26 08:08:38 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!sn-xit-01!supernews.com!newshub2.rdc1.sfba.home.com!news.home.com!news2.rdc2.tx.home.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3C026955.9060807@acm.org> From: Corey Minyard User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux ppc; en-US; rv:0.9.5+) Gecko/20011012 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Ada Structure Library 1.4 release References: <3BF1887F.5020307@acm.org> <9t1pqu$15aum9$2@ID-25716.news.dfncis.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 16:08:38 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.7.109.109 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news2.rdc2.tx.home.com 1006790918 24.7.109.109 (Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:08:38 PST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2001 08:08:38 PST Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:16986 Date: 2001-11-26T16:08:38+00:00 List-Id: Thanks for the input. That's kind of what I thought, too, but Ada plays in a lot of different places, and I wanted some input. -Corey Nick Roberts wrote: > "Corey Minyard" wrote in message > news:3BF1887F.5020307@acm.org... > >>.. >>Also, it generates a timezone file from the zone info files supplied >>with glibc. The trouble is that the full generated file is huge (8800 >>lines, about 1/2 meg). It contains all the timezones you could possibly >>imagine back to when timezones started. There is a much smaller >>simplified version that only contains the current timezone data (no >>historical information). I'm curious what people think I should do with >>the huge file. I could put the information in files and read it in on >>demand, but then the system has to have files go along with it. I could >>break it up to continent chunks, but that doesn't seem to gain much and >>complicates things. Just curious if anyone has any ideas. >> > > On a typical modern workstation (or PC), a 0.5 MB file is tiddly. Absolutely > no problem. Is it in binary format? If not, perhaps it could be made more > compact anyway. > > On any machine for which such a file is too big, it's very unlikely that > full historical timezone computations would be required. More likely, only a > very simple time model would be required. > > Problem solved! > > -- > Best wishes, > Nick Roberts > > > PS: The concept of a 'continent chunk' would give any gastro-urinary tract > specialist a nightmare, I suspect! ;-)