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Re: [PING^2] RFC [PATCH] BZ#1077902: New API gettimezone
- From: P J P <pj dot pandit at yahoo dot co dot in>
- To: Paul Eggert <eggert at cs dot ucla dot edu>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>, "libc-alpha at sourceware dot org" <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Sat, 3 May 2014 04:19:23 +0800 (SGT)
- Subject: Re: [PING^2] 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>
> On Friday, 2 May 2014 11:51 PM, Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
> Yes. I would remove /etc/localtime from both the containing server and
> from the chrooted jail. That's simpler and faster than the other
> alternatives.
IMO, we should not dictate such choice upon users. Instead, we(& glibc) need to facilitate users to make their own choices. Besides, if UTC is and was the only sane choice, why create the inefficient time zone data and define tacky TZ formats that aren't useful. Also don't overlook the fact that even if you say that TZ is bad and should not be used at all, there are real life applications which use it and depend on it. And they do that because it's a standard variable with a well document syntax and function.
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-Prasad
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