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authorJames LewisMoss <dres@debian.org>1999-12-06 19:32:57 -0500
committerBryan Newbold <bnewbold@robocracy.org>2017-02-20 00:05:28 -0800
commitc394920caedf3dac1981bb6b10eeb47fd6e4bb21 (patch)
treef21194653a3554f747dde3df908df993c48db5a0 /timezone.scm
parent926b1b647ac830660933a5e63eb52d4a2552e264 (diff)
parentbd9733926076885e3417b74de76e4c9c7bc56254 (diff)
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Import Debian changes 2c7-1debian/2c7-1
slib (2c7-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream. * Add slibconfig back in. slib (2c6-2) unstable; urgency=low * Remove the slib$(VERSION).info file. Cut the diff back down to size. slib (2c6-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream. * Move docs to /usr/share. Up standards version. add /usr/doc symlink. Move info files. Remove undocumented link. slib (2c5-6) unstable; urgency=low * Lowercase two vars in yasyn.scm (Fixes bug #37222) slib (2c5-5) unstable; urgency=low * Fix it so string-index isn't defined (now there is a strsrch:string-index) (Fixes #38812) slib (2c5-4) unstable; urgency=low * Don't run slibconfig in postinst. (Fixes bug #38253, #37733, #37715, #37746, #37809, #37917, #38123, #38462) slib (2c5-3) unstable; urgency=low * Run slibconfig in postinst. It was commented out there, but I don't see any old bug reports on why it was commented out, so let's try again. :) (Fixes bug #37221) slib (2c5-2) unstable; urgency=low * Link mklibcat.scm to mklibcat. Fixes a problem with using slib with guile. slib (2c5-1) unstable; urgency=low * New upstream. slib (2c3-4) unstable; urgency=low * New maintainer.
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1 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/timezone.scm b/timezone.scm
index 2890c39..a9149e3 100644
--- a/timezone.scm
+++ b/timezone.scm
@@ -19,14 +19,14 @@
;; The C-library support for time in general and time-zones in particular
;; stands as a fine example of how *not* to create interfaces.
-;;
+;;
;; Functions are not consistently named. Support for GMT is offered in one
;; direction only; The localtime function returns some timezone data in the
;; structure which it returns, and some data in shared global variables.
;; The structure which localtime returns is overwritten with each
;; invocation. There is no way to find local time in zones other than GMT
;; and the local timezone.
-;;
+;;
;; The tzfile(5) format encodes only a single timezone per file. There is
;; no dispatch on zone names, so multiple copies of a timezone file exist
;; under different names. The TZ `:' specification is unix filesystem
@@ -35,14 +35,14 @@
;; ASCII bytes, it is incompatible with different character sizes. The
;; binary format makes it impossible to easily inspect a file for
;; corruption.
-;;
+;;
;; I have corrected most of the failings of the C-library time interface in
;; SLIB while maintaining compatablility. I wrote support for Linux
;; timezone files because on a system where TZ is not set, there is no
;; other way to reveal this information. HP-UX appears to have a more
;; sensible arrangement; I invite you to add support for it and other
;; platforms.
-;;
+;;
;; Writing this was a long, tedious, and unenlightening process. I hope it
;; is useful.
;;
@@ -60,7 +60,10 @@
;;; This definition is here so that READ-TZFILE can verify the
;;; existence of these files before loading tzfile.scm to actually
;;; read them.
-(define tzfile:vicinity (make-vicinity "/usr/lib/zoneinfo/"))
+(define tzfile:vicinity (make-vicinity
+ (if (file-exists? "/usr/share/zoneinfo/.")
+ "/usr/share/zoneinfo/"
+ "/usr/lib/zoneinfo/")))
(define (read-tzfile path)
(let ((realpath