On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 1:33:34 pm Paul Eggert wrote:
Having an extension like this would be nice, but while we're making the interface reentrant, we should also pass in the locale as a parameter, for functions like strftime that need the locale to do their work. Many operating systems already have strftime_l and we should extend that.
Also, it would be better to use names that build on existing conventions, rather than inventing new names. How about if we use a z suffix for the new functions that have a time zone parameter? That would build on the existing tradition of using _r and _l for similar extensions. Something like this:
strftime_lz (for the strftime_l variant that has a time zone parameter) localtime_rz (for the localtime_r variant that has a time zone parameter) mktime_z (for the mktime variant that has a time zone parameter)
I agree that it'd be better to have a new opaque type, struct tz * (say), rather than void *.
These all sound fine to me. I am not tied to any specific names. I mostly care about not having to maintain this functionality as a local patch. -- John Baldwin