timezone dst transition

Paul Eggert eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU
Thu Jun 10 03:09:00 GMT 2004


Dan Eisenhut <deisenhut@wi.rr.com> writes:

> I take it that a way of directly accessing the transition time
> doesn't exist in glibc.

Correct.  However, zdump is supposed to be portable to non-glibc
implementations, so its current heuristic needs to be kept around even
if glibc were modified to make the transition times directly available.



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