strftime improvements

[Christopher Faylor]

On Wed, Feb 23, 2005 at 11:26:32PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>Cygwin OTOH suffers from the existence of an exported function timezone().
>I have not the faintest idea why this has been defined (back in 1996 or so)
>since I don't recall that a timezone() function was ever defined in some
>standard.

I think it was a BSD 4.2 thing.

>Usually, timezone is defined as the function, unless timezonevar has been
>explicitely defined by the application.  So usually there's no namespace
>clash between timezone, the function and timezone, the struct name.  The
>only no-no in Cygwin is to #include <sys/time.h> after #include <time.h>
>if the application #define's timezonevar.
>
>I would love to get rid of the timezone function and instead have a clean
>and simple definition of long timezone, but that's not possible otherwise
>we'd break backward compatibility.  Sigh.

Can't we use our standard method to do this (keep current name the same
but create a cygwin_timezone variable which is exported via the import
library as 'timezone') or would that not work with variables?

cgf