June 6, 2019
10:52 a.m.
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2019 10:51:46 +0100 From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> Message-ID: <3925de4e-efc8-2f91-2a33-274e2e56178f@mev.co.uk> | On 06/06/2019 03:33, Steve Summit wrote: | > (As an aside: Is it my imagination, or was there a time when C | > had an array of 1, 2, or maybe more than 2 time zone strings, | | It's not your imagination. [...] Just in case anyone is confused, there's no element of "C is better than Java" (or anything similar) here - the C standard, and POSIX, are just as broken and need fixing as well. What's broken is making any assumption (*any* assumption) about the way that civil time works. Whatever you assume, somewhere, sometime, it will be incorrect. kre