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

[P J P]

> On Saturday, 12 April 2014 10:33 PM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> The underlying application problem can already be addressed in a standard way,
> by setting and getting the TZ environment variable;

  How is user to know what value to set for TZ to get the correct(same as system) time?

> And even if the need were greater, the proposed implementation does not work in 
> general, because TZ binary files do not always end with strings that are 
> appropriate TZ settings.

  Agreed. That is why it is up for review. Nobody said accept the given patch and make it an API.

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