[PATCH] Fix tzfile.c

Roland McGrath roland@redhat.com
Wed Aug 11 18:42:00 GMT 2004


> Still, I wonder if it is a good idea to fopen /etc/localtime every time
> strfime, strftime_l or mktime is called or if it wouldn't be enough to
> use the old behaviour of tzset (where if $TZ is unset and was previously
> unset too, nothing will happen) when called from these functions and
> only do the slow path if tzset () is called by the user program.

This is why tzset exists.  I don't thik mktime et al ought to be rechecking
this.



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