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

[Paul Eggert]

P J P wrote:
> it's an added task to ensure that the files inside chroot(2) jail are in sync with the ones on the host.

If you can't ensure that, then you can't ensure that the time zone 
behaviors will be in sync, no matter what changes we make to glibc's 
API.  This should be obvious.  Please fix that problem first, before 
worrying so much about the API issue.