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Re: [PING^3] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
- From: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>
- To: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sun, 1 Jun 2014 01:59:05 +0800 (SGT)
- Subject: Re: [PING^3] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
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- Reply-to: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>
On Saturday, 31 May 2014 1:59 AM, Rich Felker wrote:
>The "last line of the TZ file" is what's expected to be in effect past
>times represented/representable in the zoneinfo file. There's no
>reason to believe it corresponds to what was in effect at a particular
>time the user might be interested in.
Sure, that's possible. If there is a way to figure out what is/was in effect at a particular time, that user is interested in, we should provide that appropriate value.
> It's fairly likely that it corresponds to what's in effect "right now".
And a user could be interested in that 'right now' time too.
>But I think it's a really bad idea to encourage further use of such zone specifications,
>which are inadequate to describe many world timezones.
It's better than not having access to any time-zone definition at all.
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