On Fri, Mar 8, 2013, at 15:53, Arthur David Olson wrote:

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Haven't looked at zdump yet, and it's less useful without the library functions anyway.

In theory at least, zdump is independent of everything else in the package;

as long as the functions it calls are available all should be well.

Well, yes, but it's just dumping the MSVC implementation of timezones, which is less useful than if I could get it to link against the tzcode library. I did have to switch from environ-manipulation to putenv (need to make it do that conditionally then I'll make a patch) and call tzset. How exactly was it working before without ever calling tzset? Am I missing something? Or is it just that most unix implementations, and the tzcode implementation, happen to be tolerant of calling localtime without calling tzset?