Markus Kuhn writes:
Nathan Myers wrote on 1998-09-16 19:10 UTC:
A problem I foresee is that there is no way, given a timezone_t object, to retrieve the string used to construct it. This might best be another strfxtime directive.
Which would mean that we have to force the implementor to store the original string. Is this really necessary? The user has provided the string himself, so why whould he depend on getting it back later. We certainly could easily add another strfxtime conversion specifier, but I wonder whether this is necessary at all.
Yes, it's necessary. You say "the user", but there is not just one user. Each library used in a program may be written independently, and adding interfaces to each library to communicate the time zone name around a system separately of the time zone itself just adds clutter. Nathan Myers ncm@cantrip.org