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

[Paul Eggert]

On 04/29/2014 11:39 AM, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> In that case nothing short of stuffing the zone*into*  TZ will help
And even that could have problems if the API stuffs a version-3-format 
zone into a TZ string that's shipped to a destination system that groks 
only version 2.Presumably the version number will be in the string 
somewhere so the destination could report an error, but how would that 
actually work?

> Unfortunately all of this complicates the API.
Yes.  This complication is a cost, and the cost/benefit ratio seems 
pretty high here.