[tz] What's "right"?

John Sauter John_Sauter at systemeyescomputerstore.com
Sat Nov 14 22:22:16 UTC 2020


On Sat, 2020-11-14 at 21:48 +0000, Michael H Deckers via tz wrote:
> 
>      The C library interface is not sufficient (at least not
>      without quite a bit of additional work) to convert
>      the UTC value 2016-12-31T23:59:60.5 into the value
>      2016-12-31T15:59:60.5-08:00 of Pacific time.
> 
>      Michael Deckers.

That is correct, and I have done the work.  It is available as a
tarball at https://github.com/ShowControl/libtime and in COPR at
johnsauter/libtime.  You can download the documentation from this URL:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Avoid_Using_POSIX_time_t_for_Telling_Time.pdf

    John Sauter (John_Sauter at systemeyescomputerstore.com)

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