On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 05:19:19PM -0400, "Olson, Arthur David (NIH/NCI) [E]" <olsona@dc37a.nci.nih.gov> wrote:
impose any fixed length limit. (POSIX allows implementations to limit the length to six bytes or higher, but doesn't oblige them to.)
Maybe I am dense, but where does POSIX actually oblige implementations to only accept the POSIX forms for TZ? I see no requirement for implementations to handle this in any specific way, but maybe I overlooked it? (The lack of requirements might not invalidate reasons to change anything, of course). -- The choice of a Deliantra, the free code+content MORPG -----==- _GNU_ http://www.deliantra.net ----==-- _ generation ---==---(_)__ __ ____ __ Marc Lehmann --==---/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / schmorp@schmorp.de -=====/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\