On Wednesday 02 November 2011 13:12:01 Bennett Todd wrote:
It'd surely be nice if this reorg could be propagated to tzcode, in C, ultimately to wend its way into libc everywhere; forking or independently reimplementing tzcode carries a maintenance cost, as the tzdata format isn't quite completely set in stone yet, and as sufficiently clever legislators cook up sufficiently brilliant schemes to "save daylight", it's possible tzdata format and tzcode may have to co-evolve again.
Any folks on this list have opinions about how the tzset/localtime api should best evolve?
POSIX already covers things like localtime(). if people want to extend the time API that is part of the C library, then that discussion should happen on the POSIX mailing lists. http://www.opengroup.org/austin/lists.html http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/localtime.html -mike