Re: [tz] Reading binary files

<<On Wed, 2 Nov 2011 10:58:05 -0400, "Thom Hehl" <Thom@pointsix.com> said:

Not if you are writing applications that need high performance processing of multiple timezones and access from multiple languages and platforms. Besides, we're multi-threaded. Changing environment variables is simply not an option. Yikes! Can you say race condition.

A thread-safe API has been proposed on the predecessor to this list a few times in the recent past, and I believe someone actually posted patches at one point. This would give you versions of tzset(), localtime(), and mktime() that used explicit (non-shared) state rather than the shared state required by the functions in the C standard. -GAWollman