SunOS and timelocal, timegm, tzsetwall

[Robbin Kawabata]

timelocal(), timegm(), tzsetwall() are no longer in SunOS.  
I believe they were replaced in SunOS 5.0 (by mktime(), localtime(), 
tzset()).

Robbin

> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 22:13:09 -0800
> From: Jonathan Leffler <jonathan.leffler at gmail.com>
> Subject: SunOS and timelocal, timegm, tzsetwall
> To: Time Zone Mailing List <tz at lecserver.nci.nih.gov>
> 
> In Makefile (for tzcode2007k), there are the comments:
> 
> # Sun has provided "tzsetwall", "timelocal", and "timegm" in SunOS 4.0.
> # These functions may well disappear in future releases of the time
> # conversion package.
> 
> For Solaris 8 (SunOS 5.8) and Solaris 10 (SunOS 5.10), neither the standard
> C library nor any other shared library in /lib or /usr/lib defines or
> references tzsetwall, timelocal or timegm -- the functions no longer exist
> in Solaris.  I was checking on SPARC rather than Intel, but I would not
> expect that to matter in practice.
> 
> You can, however, find references for these functions for Solaris 2.5 (aka
> SunOS 5.5) and Solaris 2.6 (SunOS 5.6) if you Google "site:sun.comtzsetwall" - 
(
> 2.5: http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-1930-03/6i5u95utq?a=view; 2.6:
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/802-5747-03/6i9g1bha0?l=ko&a=view).
> Interestingly, there is a Solaris 8 manual page (
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/806-0627/6j9vhfn9n?l=ko&a=view) that
> mentions tzsetwall (but not timegm or timelocal), but I still can't find the
> function in any of the shared libraries on a representative Solaris 8
> machine.  There is a 'Solaris 8 Transition Guide' at
> http://docs.sun.com/app/docs/doc/805-6331/6j5vgg6bv?a=view which mentions
> all three - describing their replacements.
> 
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