time zones [forwarded with permission]

Arthur David Olson ado
Wed Jan 5 19:29:07 UTC 1994


> From ncm at netcom.com Wed Jan  5 03:20:09 1994
> Return-Path: <ncm at netcom.com>
> Received: from mail.netcom.com (netcom3.netcom.com) by elsie.nci.nih.gov (4.1/SMI-4.1)
> 	id AA17468; Wed, 5 Jan 94 03:20:07 EST
> Received: from localhost by mail.netcom.com (8.6.4/SMI-4.1/Netcom)
> 	id AAA02279; Wed, 5 Jan 1994 00:20:40 -0800
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 1994 00:20:40 -0800
> From: ncm at netcom.com (Nathan Myers)
> Message-Id: <199401050820.AAA02279 at mail.netcom.com>
> To: ado at elsie.nci.nih.gov
> Subject: time zones
> Status: RO
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I have been working on time zones at Rogue Wave Software, and
> on locale support for the ISO/ANSI C++ Standard Library committee.
> It seems to me that the C++ Library effort offers an excellent
> place to standardize on a time zone library, as the contents
> of a class timezone.  We are not bound to C Library facilities
> or conventions, so this is an opportunity to correct old mistakes.
> (e.g. hidden static variables implied by the interface)
> 
> Please forward this to anyone you think might be interested in
> helping put together a proposal.
> 
> Thank you
> Nathan Myersn
> myersn at roguewave.com



More information about the tz mailing list