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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Timezone classes
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicolasg () snafu ! de>
Date:       2005-09-15 18:06:16
Message-ID: 200509152006.16662.nicolasg () snafu ! de
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On Thursday 15 September 2005 19:50, David Jarvie wrote:
(...)
> KTimezones::local() doesn't allow for the possibility of /etc/localtime
> being a link to a file in /use/share/zoneinfo/ (or wherever). This is quite

If I remember well, the problem about /etc/localtime being a link, had been 
reported immediately in kde-commits (but apparently the code was not 
changed).

> a common configuration, e.g. in Debian. The method also reads the files in
> /use/share/zoneinfo/ *every* time it is called, which seems an unnecessary
> overhead. Could the files' checksums be cached, and the files only be
> reread if no match is found (which might indicate that the timezone
> database had changed)?
(...)

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