Re: Ada Structure Library 1.4 release

["Nick Roberts" <nickroberts@adaos.worldonline.co.uk>]

"Corey Minyard" <minyard@acm.org> 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!

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Best wishes,
Nick Roberts


PS: The concept of a 'continent chunk' would give any gastro-urinary tract
specialist a nightmare, I suspect! ;-)