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Re: [PING^3] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone

P J P wrote:

things alone.

    Did you even look at the patch? It does not change any API, but introduces a new one.
Yes, of course I looked at the patch. It would change the glibc API in an upwards compatible way. As I wrote, this would require applications to change if they want to use the new facility. That is not "leaving things alone". As already discussed, applications already have a way to solve the problem, one that is widely used and portable: they can set TZ to "UTC0" (or to whatever other value they like). We can therefore leave things alone; there's no need for an extension. 


It'll greatly help to discuss whether 'best fit' is the TZ string at the end of the tzdata file, when it is present, or any other line from the tzdata file.
Again, we are going around in circles. The 'best fit' is not the TZ string at the end of the tzdata file. It is not any other line from the tzdata file. It is not in the tzdata file anywhere. You are asking for something that does not exist.
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