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

From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
To: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal dot cx>, P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>
Cc: "libc-help at sourceware dot org" <libc-help at sourceware dot org>
Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2014 19:36:39 -0700
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
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Carlos O'Donell wrote:

standardizing on UTC ... imposes on the
developer to rewrite whatever software they are using for what
is an arbitrary decision of "Use UTC."

Software shouldn't have to be rewritten to use UTC. It should work justfine if TZ='UTC0'. The rare application that doesn't work in UTC shouldset TZ to the value that it requires.

Can't we do better?

glibc could do something more *complicated*, sure, but it'd be work andit'd be error-prone, not just in terms of our own code but in terms ofhow it'd be used in practice. "Use UTC" is simple, is dog-simple toexplain to operations staff, and has been the standard approach oncollections of servers for decades.

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