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Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
- From: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>
- To: "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 17:41:21 +0800 (SGT)
- Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
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- Reply-to: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>
Hello Paul,
> On Thursday, 3 April 2014 11:17 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> For starters, timezone settings typically are not representable as POSIX TZ strings.
What do you mean?
> More generally, the proposal needs more-compelling use cases.
More-compelling than cases wherein '/etc/localtime' is not accessible?
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