Re: TZ-related changes in Draft 5 of the next POSIX standard

--On Monday, January 8, 2001 16:31 -0800 Paul Eggert <eggert@twinsun.com> wrote:

* The following declarations are added to <time.h>:

char *asctime_r(const struct tm *restrict, char *restrict); char *ctime_r(const time_t *, char *); struct tm *localtime_r(const time_t *restrict, struct tm *restrict); struct tm *gmtime_r(const time_t *restrict, struct tm *restrict); struct tm *getdate(const char *); char *strptime(const char *restrict, const char *restrict, struct tm *restrict);

extern int daylight; extern long timezone;

A suggested clarification: localtime_r (and friends) should always be thread safe, even if a non-thread-safe time function such as mktime is called in another thread. - Chris