Nov. 11, 2016
11:22 p.m.
Guy Harris wrote:
neither tzgetname() nor tzgetgmtoff() fully support the tzdb ... if we were to provide similar APIs, they'd have to take something such as a time_t as an argument
I don't see the need, as one can call localtime and get the time zone abbreviation from tm_zone. This works on NetBSD, which defines tm_zone, so those two functions are unnecessary there. Any platform lacking tm_zone should add it instead of adding those two functions.