RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
Paul Eggert
eggert@cs.ucla.edu
Fri Apr 4 06:39:00 GMT 2014
P J P wrote:
> TZ is not set by default on most systems for '/etc/localtime' is almost always accessible.
If you consider this to be a problem, then I suggest campaigning to
change this practice, so that TZ is set by default. That is much
simpler than trying to convince library developers to add a new API with
hard-to-explain semantics, and then to convince application developers
to use it. There should be no need to add a complicated API to work
around an operational problem that is easily addressed by configuring
systems correctly in the first place.
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