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Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone

P J P wrote:

the TZ string at the end of a zone file does work well


Not really.  Sometimes it works, but sometimes it's completely wrong.


for cases wherein the TZ string is absent from a zone file, fall-back to UTC is well reasonable too
If *that* is good enough, then there's no need to change the API. Just set TZ to "UTC0". Done. Which is what apps have done for decades.
I'm afraid I still have the impression that the proposed cure is worse than the disease.
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