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diff --git a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt index 134a5c5..31e1dd9 100644 --- a/release_docs/RELEASE.txt +++ b/release_docs/RELEASE.txt @@ -155,6 +155,34 @@ New Features (DER - 2015-03-08, HDFFV-9086) + - Removed obsolete time functionality from configure and C library + + The library contained some residual functionality from obsolete + time zone handling code. This has been removed and the configure + checks for the time functions have been cleaned up. + + * Lumped all the time functionality together in configure.ac. + This was previously more spread out due to Solaris issues + with the ordering of certain checks. + + * Removes processing that handles __tm_gmtoff members of struct + tm. (libc-4) + + * Removes BSDgettimeofday(). (IRIX 5.3) + + * Removes timezone struct handling in gettimeofday(). (considered + harmful) + + Note that the HDF5 library stores timestamps in a platform-independent + manner, so old files can still be read. This only affects convering + system time to HDF5 timestamps. + + The library currently uses the tm_gmtoff member of the tm struct + (preferred, if available) or the timezone global variable to + construct HDF5 timestamps. + + (DER - 2015-03-09, HDFFV-9083 and 9085) + Library ------- - None |