walltime vs localtzset

Arthur David Olson ado
Mon Dec 8 23:23:35 UTC 1986


Guy Harris's point on localtzset being much easier to implement than
walltime is very well taken.
Of course, the real name will need to be different
to avoid conflicts between localtime and localtzset on systems
with only six characters worth of external identifiers.  Maybe tzsetlocal?

				--ado



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