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Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
- From: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
- To: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 22:47:20 -0700
- Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
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I suggest sending this to libc-help first, as it'd need some work before
it's ready for libc-alpha. For starters, timezone settings typically
are not representable as POSIX TZ strings. More generally, the proposal
needs more-compelling use cases.