List structure and standards making
Guy Harris
seismo!sun!guy
Sat Mar 14 02:48:08 UTC 1987
People will be relieved in that, except for the casting (sic) into
concrete of struct tm,
Given that the draft does not say "'struct tm' looks like this", but just
says that "the structure shall contain at least the following members", it
is incorrect to say that that the structure has been cast into concrete. An
OS that supports an X3J11-compliant C implementation is perfectly free to
add new members to "struct tm". As it stands now, we plan to add Elz' new
members, with his names for them, in a future release.
Thus the current discussions on the whole time subject are
rapidly becomming academic...
People will be relieved in that, except for the casting (sic) into
concrete of struct tm, much is left unsaid, especially things like
timezones;
Given that much is left unsaid, some discussions of timezone are most
definitely *not* academic, and X3J11 will not render them so; various OSes
that support X3J11-compliant C implementations can and will do different
things here. POSIX systems will have to do something; the proposal already
made to P1003 is a good start, at least.
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