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


Carlos O'Donell wrote:
What do we do then?

We say, "sorry, the problem is out of scope". If you're trying to copy the contents of /etc/localtime to some random configuration, it might not even work there. These file formats change occasionally, for example.

glibc doesn't need an API change. People who have this problem can save the contents of the TZ environment variable (or record that it's unset), and standardize on UTC in /etc/localtime. That's good enough.

I'm redirecting this to libc-help because this thread is really more about helping someone use the system than about changing the libc API.


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