Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] gnu: Add hare.

From: Antero Mejr <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:30:02 -0400

Maxime Devos <[email-masked]> writes:

>> +      (inputs (list tzdata))
>
> What's this input for?  Packages shouldn't have tzdata in their inputs,
> because it's a bunch of facts about the external world.  When doing
> this, running hare's equivalent of `date` from an old profile would
> give a bogus result because of out-of-date time zone info.

I forgot to patch the path in leapsec.ha to use for Guix's leapseconds
file. Should I do that, or leave out tzdata?

>From the hare mailing list:

"Notably, Hare requires the installation of the leap-seconds.list file in
the tzdata package in order to handle leap seconds properly.

Hare will work in the absence of this file, or of tzdata as a whole, but
users will encounter bugs in timekeeping logic."

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