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Re: strftime improvements
Jeff Johnston <jjohnstn <at> redhat.com> writes:
>
> I have no problem with moving the type into sys/types.h, but I would like to
> suggest a further change as well. I would like to see the definition moved
into
> a separate file with an access function (e.g. __get_tzrule_ptr()) . Each
> libc/time function needing access would fetch the address dynamically and
there
> wouldn't be a global variable. If you don't have time to do this, I'll do
it,
> but it affects your code on the other side in Cygwin.
>
While you're at it, could you please fix the type of _timezone to be long,
rather than time_t (or even char*(*)(void)), since POSIX requires <time.h> to
export:
int daylight;
long timezone;
char *tzname[2];
http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/basedefs/time.h.html#tag_13_76