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

From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat dot com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>
Cc: 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: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 12:14:00 +0530
Subject: Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
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On Wed, Apr 02, 2014 at 10:47:20PM -0700, Paul Eggert wrote:
> 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.

This was in fact sent to libc-help and I suggested sending it here
instead because there's no point in working extensively on the patch
if the proposal is not compelling enough.  Also, I think folks helping
with working on patch are on libc-alpha and not on libc-help.

Siddhesh

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References:
- RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
  - From: P J P
- Re: RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
  - From: Paul Eggert

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