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

[Paul Eggert]

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.